Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
Technology
May 15, 2024
Workday asks judge to reject claims over applicant screening software
The company argues that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not cover software vendors, and that employers are not liable for discriminatory conduct by a screening software if unaware of the conduct.
Workday Inc. asked a federal judge in San Francisco to reject employment discrimination claims related to its applicant screening software, arguing in Tuesday's hearing that the plaintiff and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were looking for a legislative rather than a legal fix.
''The way that the statutes are written and the way that the case law has interpreted them, there is broad interpretation and then there's just going too far," said O...
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