26 Meta employees are suing the company.
26名Meta员工起诉公司。
They say Meta used an AI system to choose who to lay off.
他们说Meta使用AI系统选择裁员对象。
The system unfairly targeted employees on medical, parental, or family leave.
这个系统不成比例地针对休医疗、育儿或家庭假的员工。
These employees are part of the 8,000 layoffs Meta announced in May.
这些员工是Meta 5月宣布裁员8000人中的一部分。
The layoffs were about 10% of the total workforce.
这次裁员约占员工总数的10%。
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Oakland, California.
诉讼在加州奥克兰联邦法院提起。
Meta is accused of using several methods to decide who to lay off. These include an internal AI system, keyboard and activity monitoring data. They also include an AI token usage dashboard and algorithm-assisted performance rankings.
Meta被指控使用内部AI系统、键盘和活动监控数据、AI代币使用仪表板及算法辅助的绩效排名等方法确定裁员人选。
The lawsuit says many scores and ratings "by design, cannot be earned by employees on protected leave." They also cannot be earned by those with reduced output due to disability.
诉讼说,许多分数和评级“根据设计,无法由正在休受保护假或残疾导致产出减少的员工积累”。
Meta did not consider protected leave when looking at employee scores.
Meta在考虑员工分数时没有考虑受保护假。
It also did not pause the system for individual reviews.
它也没有暂停系统进行个性化审查。
As a result, employees on protected leave were chosen more often.
因此,休受保护假的员工被不成比例地选中。
All 26 anonymous employees took protected leave or asked for disability help.
26名匿名员工都休过受保护假或请求过残疾便利。
They still work at Meta, and their jobs will end starting July 22.
他们仍受雇于Meta,离职将于7月22日开始。
Many employees in the lawsuit took maternity or parental leave.
诉讼中的许多员工休过孕假或育儿假。
Not working during that time caused their output to drop.
期间不工作导致产出减少。
Others took medical leave. One person disclosed a serious health condition and got approval from Meta's medical provider.
其他人休医疗假,其中一人披露严重健康状况并获Meta医疗提供者批准。
But a manager discouraged this person and told them that taking leave would lead to layoffs.
但此人被经理劝阻,并被告知休假会导致裁员。
Meta's statement says the claims "lack basis."
Meta声明称指控“缺乏依据”。
It stresses that workforce management is decided by people, not AI.
它强调劳动力管理由人而非AI决定。
About half of the plaintiffs took leave for caregiving or pregnancy reasons.
约一半原告因护理或怀孕相关原因休过假。
The lawsuit says the layoffs broke several laws. These include the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
诉讼称裁员违反《家庭与医疗休假法》《美国残疾人法》等多项法律。
The plaintiffs' lawyers argue that the algorithm-assisted selection process affects women more than men. It records absences as lower performance.
原告律师辩称,算法辅助选择过程通过将缺勤记录为绩效下降,对女性影响大于男性。
The lawyers ask to keep the current situation to protect workers' jobs.
律师要求维持现状以保留工人工作。
Because once the layoff is decided, the harm cannot be undone.
因为一旦离职确定,损害无法逆转。