Yes to California's "No Robo Bosses Act"
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Yes to California's "No Robo Bosses Act"
"S.B. 7 is a strong step in the right direction. It addresses "automated decision systems" (ADS) across the full landscape of employment. It applies to bosses in the private and government sectors, and it protects workers who are employees and contractors. It addresses all manner of employment decisions that involve automated decisionmaking, including hiring, wages, hours, duties, promotion, discipline, and termination. It covers bosses using ADS to assist or replace a person making a decision about another person."
"Before using it to make a decision about a job applicant or current worker, a boss must notify them about the use of ADS. The notice must be in a stand-alone, plain language communication. The notice to a current worker must disclose the types of decisions subject to ADS, and a boss cannot use an ADS for an undisclosed purpose. Further, the notice to a current worker must disclose information about how the ADS works, including what information goes in and how it arrives at its decision (such as whether some factors are weighed more heavily than others)."
Algorithmic decision-making increasingly affects hiring, discipline, promotion, wages, hours, and termination, and can discriminate by gender, race, and other protected statuses. S.B. 7 applies to private and government employers and covers employees and contractors when employers use automated decision systems to assist or replace human decisionmakers. Employers must provide stand-alone, plain-language notice before using ADS on applicants or current workers, disclose the types of decisions governed by ADS, and cannot repurpose ADS for undisclosed uses. Notices to current workers must explain what information feeds the ADS and how the system reaches its conclusions. The bill also provides some due process for workers facing discipline.
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