Dozens of Meta employees sue, allege AI use for layoffs affects workers on protected leave
Dozens of Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company used AI-driven performance monitoring to unfairly target workers on protected medical or family leave for layoffs. The plaintiffs claim that the automated systems failed to account for legally mandated leave, resulting in discriminatory selection processes.
They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, Calif., claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off.
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