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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 名 Meta 員工告了公司

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

他們說 Meta AI 系統選人裁員

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

這個系統針對請病假、育嬰假或家庭假的員工

This was unfair, they say.

他們說這不公平

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

這個訴訟加州奧克蘭的聯邦法院

It says Meta used internal AI tools.

它說Meta用了內部的AI工具

It also used keystroke monitoring and algorithm scores.

它也用了按鍵監控演算法分數

These tools helped decide who to lay off.

這些工具幫助決定要解僱誰

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

原告說休假中的工人無法得到和上班工人一樣的分數

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

訴訟說Meta用這些分數時沒有考慮休假

Many of the 26 employees took pregnancy or parental leave.

26名員工中,很多人請了產假育嬰假

Others took medical leave for disabilities.

其他人因殘疾請了病假

One employee said a manager warned him.

一名員工一位經理警告了他

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

經理請批准的假會導致被選中裁員

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

大約一半的原告請了照顧假產假

Meta said the claims are not true.

Meta 這些說法不是真的

It said people, not AI, made the decisions.

在做決定不是人工智慧

The lawsuit says Meta broke several federal laws.

這起訴訟 Meta 違反了幾項聯邦法律

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

這些包括《家庭與醫療休假法案》《美國殘疾人法案》

It also talks about "disparate impact."

談到「差別影響」

This is a legal idea.

一個法律概念

The Trump administration wants to stop using it.

川普政府想要停止使用它

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

原告的律師想要讓工人留在他們的工作上

They are waiting for arbitration.

他們正在等待仲裁

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

他們裁員會造成無法修復的嚴重傷害

July 16th, 2026

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