No Robot Bosses Act: Human Oversight for AI Employment Decisions.
This bill mandates human oversight for employment decisions—including hiring, firing, and scheduling—when employers use automated decision systems or AI. It grants workers the right to detailed explanations about how an algorithm influenced a decision, the ability to dispute the output, and the right to appeal to a human manager. The law also establishes a new division within the Department of Labor to enforce these protections.
Key points
Employers cannot rely *exclusively* on AI/automated systems for decisions related to hiring, firing, pay, or scheduling.
Workers must receive clear documentation and the right to appeal any employment decision influenced by an automated system to a human.
Automated systems must undergo mandatory, public, annual testing to ensure they do not result in discrimination based on protected characteristics (e.g., race, gender, age).
Employees managed by an automated system (e.g., for performance or scheduling) gain the right to opt out and be managed by a human manager.
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