BiasHigh
Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm
- Occurred
- Nov 27, 2020
- Published
- Jan 4, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Deliveroo’s employee ‘reliability’ algorithm illegally discriminated against workers with legitimate reasons for cancelling shifts.
Developers
- Deliveroo
Deployers
- Deliveroo
Harmed parties
- Deliveroo workers with legitimate reasons for cancelling shifts
- Deliveroo workers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Court ruling confirms algorithmic discrimination against workers, constituting a legal and regulatory incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8