Workday Should Face AI Bias Claims by Job Seeker EEOC Argues (1)

A Black job applicant should be permitted to pursue his claims that Workday Inc.'s algorithm-based screening tools discriminated against job seekers, as he feasibly alleged the company acts as an “employment agency,” the EEOC said in a new court filing.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the US District Court for the Northern District of California not to dismiss Derek Mobley’s proposed race and disability-based class action against the human resources tech company. Workday is covered by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the agency ...