Workday AI Age Bias Case Should Be Class Action, Job Seeker Says

A lawsuit alleging Workday Inc.'s algorithm-based screening tools have kept employers from hiring workers age 40 or over should proceed on a nationwide-class basis, a rejected job seeker told a federal court.

All proposed members of the collective of older workers who missed out on jobs because of the artificial intelligence and machine learning systems and other screening tools Workday uses are “similarly situated” for purposes of conditional certification under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Derek Mobley said in a motion filed Thursday. Four other workers who say employers also failed to hire them because of Workday’s discriminatory employment ...