Meta lawsuit claims AI-driven layoffs hit workers on medical, parenta…

Meta faces a lawsuit from 26 employees claiming its AI-driven layoff system disproportionately targeted workers on medical, parental, and family leave by using metrics that cannot accumulate during protected absences. The suit alleges Meta failed to conduct leave-neutral performance reviews as required by law, affecting 8,000 total layoffs announced in May. If you're building AI hiring or performance tools, this lawsuit just made accommodation-blindness a legal liability. Meta's system scored people lower during protected leave because those periods don't generate activity metrics—and that's now a federal case, meaning compliance code is now table stakes for any AI that touches employment decisions.