Meta used AI workplace tools to target employees on medical leave, la…

Meta faces a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI-powered workplace tools to penalise workers on medical and parental leave, then selected them for layoffs in May 2026. The plaintiffs claim Meta's AI systems scored employees on metrics they could not accrue while on protected leave, effectively treating absence as underperformance. If you're building AI performance-management tools for enterprises, you've just inherited Meta's legal bill. Any system that scores workers on activity metrics without explicitly carving out protected leave is now a known liability—and your customer's lawyers will demand it before you install.