A federal judge is letting workers over 40 sue Workday over an AI hiring screen they say sorted out older applicants by the million. A denied motion to dismiss is not a finding that anyone broke the law, only that the claim survives.

  • On March 6, 2026, Judge Rita Lin again let applicants, not just employees, bring age-bias claims under the 1967 age-discrimination law, after a friend-of-the-court brief from AARP.
  • Court filings put the platform at roughly 1.1 billion applications; by one industry account about 14,000 joined the collective, which Workday would not confirm.
  • Workday says its AI is not trained to use or even identify age, race, or disability.
  • AARP's latest poll of 1,656 workers over 50, published in January, finds age bias unchanged since 2024.

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