March 07, 2025
A lawsuit accusing Workday of using automated hiring tools to unlawfully screen out applicants over 40 should not be given collective action status, the human resources platform told a California federal court, arguing the group would contain millions of dissimilar workers and innumerable employers.
February 07, 2025
A spurned job applicant urged a California federal court to confer collective action status on his claim that Workday's automated hiring tools violate federal age discrimination law, saying the artificial intelligence platform's similar treatment of older job seekers was enough to warrant representative status.
January 01, 2025
A cutting-edge discrimination lawsuit over Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools, a group of Tesla workers' legal battle over alleged racist harassment, and a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit over Sheetz's criminal background screens top the list of discrimination class actions attorneys will be tracking in 2025. Here, Law360 looks at where these three cases will go in the coming year.
July 15, 2024
A job candidate's discrimination case over Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools got the go-ahead to move into the fact-finding stage, as a California federal judge said it's plausible that employment bias laws could stretch to reach the software vendor.
June 20, 2024
Software vendor Workday is battling a suit over its artificial intelligence tools, Tesla is preparing for a sweeping race discrimination trial, lawyers for Southwest Airlines hope to dodge court-mandated religious bias training and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is defending its new pregnant worker rule. Here are four discrimination cases lawyers should keep an eye on in the latter half of 2024.
May 14, 2024
A California federal judge handling a job candidate's discrimination case over Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools seemed ready Tuesday to let the legal battle move ahead, as she expressed skepticism about the software developer's assertion that federal employment laws can't reach it.
May 03, 2024
An upcoming hearing in California federal court in a job candidate's discrimination case over software provider Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools will hinge on the question of who shoulders the liability when a high-tech workplace tool churns out biased results.
May 03, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments before the California Supreme Court on the issue of the right of workers bringing a case under the state's Private Attorneys General Act to intervene in a separate matter. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
April 25, 2024
Workday Inc. urged a California federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to file an "inappropriately partisan" amicus brief in support of a Black job hopeful's suit claiming the business uses biased algorithms to disqualify applicants.
April 18, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently suggested that software vendor Workday may be liable if its artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools unlawfully screen out certain groups of applicants, a position that experts said could encourage private class actions if courts agree.