A federal judge’s refusal to pause Meta’s planned layoffs has handed the social-media giant an immediate procedural victory, but it has not resolved the far more consequential question at the center of the dispute: Can an employer lawfully use AI-assisted productivity signals when those signals...
Twenty-six Meta employees are asking a federal court to stop their July 22 terminations, alleging that internal AI systems, activity monitoring, and AI-usage metrics disproportionately pushed workers with disabilities or protected medical and family leave into an 8,000-person layoff. Meta denies...
