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26 Meta workers sue. They say AI chose them to lose jobs. They were on medical or family leave.

26 Meta workers sue. They say AI chose them to lose jobs. They were on medical or family leave.

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July 16th, 2026

26 Meta workers sue. They say AI chose them to lose jobs. They were on medical or family leave.

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A group of 26 Meta employees sued the company.

26个Meta员工起诉了公司

They say Meta used AI systems to choose people for layoffs.

他们说Meta用AI系统选人裁员

The system targeted workers on medical, parental, or family leave.

这个系统针对休病假、育儿假或家庭假的员工

This was unfair, they say.

他们说这不公平

The lawsuit is in a federal court in Oakland, California.

这个案子加利福尼亚州奥克兰一个联邦法院

It says Meta used internal AI tools.

它说Meta用了内部的AI工具

It also used keystroke monitoring and algorithm scores.

它还用了键盘监控算法分数

These tools helped decide who to lay off.

这些工具帮助决定解雇谁

The plaintiffs say workers on leave could not get the same scores as active workers.

原告说休假工人不能得到和在职工人一样的分数

Meta did not think about leave when it used these scores, the lawsuit says.

诉讼说Meta用这些分数时没有考虑休假

Many of the 26 employees took pregnancy or parental leave.

26名员工中,很多人休了产假育儿假

Others took medical leave for disabilities.

其他人因残疾休了病假

One employee said a manager warned him.

一名员工一位经理警告了他

The manager said taking approved leave would lead to layoff selection.

经理休批准的假会被选中裁员

About half of the plaintiffs took leave for caregiving or pregnancy.

大约一半的原告休了护理假产假

Meta said the claims are not true.

Meta 这些说法不是真的

It said people, not AI, made the decisions.

做了决定不是人工智能

The lawsuit says Meta broke several federal laws.

诉讼 Meta 违反几条联邦法律

These include the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

这些包括《家庭与医疗休假法案》《美国残疾人法案》

It also talks about "disparate impact."

谈到不同影响”。

This is a legal idea.

一个法律概念

The Trump administration wants to stop using it.

特朗普政府停止使用

The plaintiffs' lawyers want to keep the workers in their jobs.

原告的律师工人们保住他们的工作

They are waiting for arbitration.

他们在等待仲裁

They say the layoffs will cause bad harm that cannot be fixed.

他们裁员会造成无法修复严重伤害

July 16th, 2026

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