What the law regulates

The city regulates employer and employment-agency use of qualifying automated employment decision tools to screen candidates for employment or employees for promotion within the law’s New York City scope.

The operating framework

  1. Confirm whether the system falls within the ordinance and rule definition of an AEDT.
  2. Ensure a qualifying tool has undergone a bias audit no more than one year before use.
  3. Publish the required summary of the most recent audit results and distribution information.
  4. Provide covered candidates and employees with the notices required by the ordinance and rule.

Why the timeline matters

Treating January 1 and July 5 as interchangeable obscures the difference between the ordinance’s legal effective date and the agency’s later rule and enforcement timeline. The underlying regulatory records preserve those events separately.