Derek Mobley – Michael Saad

Briefing
Workday AI bias case expands to sex and California discrimination claims

The lawsuit against Workday began as a challenge to software that can determine which job applicants ever reach a human recruiter. Now, the case is expanding beyond its original allegations of race, age, and disability discrimination to include claims involving sex discrimination and California employment law. On March 6, U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin…

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AI hiring filters can put employers and vendors on the hook

Software can do a lot more than organize job applications. It can decide which applications anybody bothers looking at, and that’s the part of Mobley v. Workday I find more interesting than the AI label. Derek Mobley and other applicants allege that Workday’s hiring technology scored, sorted, ranked or screened applicants in ways that discriminated…

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