Today on Tech@Work, a court grants employment software company Workday's motion for modified termination with leave in an algorithmic bias hiring case. New York state adds protections against AI exploitation to fashion model labor bill. And the AFL-CIO president has expressed the need for AI regulation.
A federal judge in Oakland last week granted a motion by recruiting software company Workday to dismiss a hiring discrimination lawsuit, but gave plaintiff Derek Mobley until next month to amend his claim. As Bloomberg reported, Mobley, a black man in his 40s with a disability, applied for between 80 and 100 jobs at various companies, all of which used Workday's hiring algorithm to screen candidates. Was. In his lawsuit, Mobley alleges that Workday's algorithms discriminated against him and similarly situated individuals based on race, age, and disability. The court denied the portion of Workday's motion to dismiss that argued that Mobley had not exhausted administrative remedies through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. However, he granted Workday's motion with permission to amend Mobley's other claims. Importantly, Mr. Mobley does not allege sufficient facts to state his claim that Workday “sources” workers and is therefore an employment broker. This is the basic argument needed to hold Workday accountable for the discriminatory practices Mobley alleges. He has until February 20th to amend his claim.
As mentioned in Tech@Work two weeks ago, fashion models were pushing for AI abuse protections to be added to a new New York state law aimed at improving conditions for fashion models in general. As of yesterday, Senate Bill 2477 includes a provision that would require fashion agencies to obtain a model's written consent before reusing a model's digital likeness in a new fashion campaign, as reported by Bloomberg. Ta. This provision is part of the SAG-AFTRA agreement with studios that background actors whose digital replicas are reused must be paid at rates similar to their regular rates, plus compensation for face-to-face time. It reflects.
As Politico reported this week, AFL-CIO President Liz Schuller spoke about the concerns AI poses for workers in an interview at the Summit in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. She discussed the need for agencies like the FDA to “oversee things like making sure drugs don't kill people before they get into the wild” and the role the labor movement can play as a force against AI. emphasized. .
