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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.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์ง์› 26๋ช…์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ AI ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๊ณจ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

๊ทธ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์˜๋ฃŒ, ์œก์•„, ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This was unfair, they say.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถˆ๊ณตํ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์†Œ์†ก์€ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์˜คํด๋žœ๋“œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ฒ•์›์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It says Meta used internal AI tools.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ AI ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It also used keystroke monitoring and algorithm scores.

๋˜ํ•œ ํ‚ค ์ž…๋ ฅ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง๊ณผ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These tools helped decide who to lay off.

์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์›๊ณ ๋“ค์€ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ํ™œ๋™ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ด ์ ์ˆ˜๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Many of the 26 employees took pregnancy or parental leave.

26๋ช…์˜ ์ง์› ์ค‘ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ž„์‹  ํœด๊ฐ€๋‚˜ ์œก์•„ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Others took medical leave for disabilities.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์žฅ์• ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์˜๋ฃŒ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One employee said a manager warned him.

ํ•œ ์ง์›์ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋Š” ์Šน์ธ๋œ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•ด๊ณ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์›๊ณ ์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋Œ๋ด„์ด๋‚˜ ์ž„์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta said the claims are not true.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ง์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It said people, not AI, made the decisions.

ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” AI๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit says Meta broke several federal laws.

์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์–ด๊ฒผ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ฐ ์˜๋ฃŒ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฒ•๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์žฅ์• ์ธ๋ฒ•์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It also talks about "disparate impact."

๋˜ํ•œ '์ฐจ๋ณ„์  ์˜ํ–ฅ'์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is a legal idea.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฒ•์  ์ƒ๊ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Trump administration wants to stop using it.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์›๊ณ ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They are waiting for arbitration.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ค‘์žฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•ด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋‚˜์œ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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