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CURRENT COVERAGE
7 records · 3 articles
Relevant jurisdictions: California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont.
REGULATORY RECORDS
Employment Regulations Regarding Automated-Decision Systems
California regulations clarify how the Fair Employment and Housing Act applies when employers and other covered entities use automated-decision systems in employment decisions.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Colorado Automated Decision-Making Technology Act
Colorado repealed and reenacted its automated-decision framework. Beginning January 1, 2027, the law governs covered automated decision-making technology used to materially influence consequential decisions, including employment decisions.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Illinois Human Rights Act — Use of Artificial Intelligence in Employment
Illinois amended its Human Rights Act to address employer use of artificial intelligence across recruitment, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and other employment terms.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →New York City Local Law 144 — Automated Employment Decision Tools
New York City regulates employer and employment-agency use of certain automated employment decision tools used to screen candidates for employment or employees for promotion in the city.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Massachusetts Attorney General Advisory — Existing Laws and Artificial Intelligence
The Massachusetts Attorney General advises that existing state consumer-protection, anti-discrimination, and data-security laws apply to developers, suppliers, and users of artificial intelligence, including employment uses covered by state anti-discrimination law.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →New Jersey Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination
New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights explains that the Law Against Discrimination applies when automated decision systems or other algorithmic tools cause unlawful discrimination, including in employment advertising, screening, hiring, evaluation, promotion, discipline, and termination.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Vermont H.340 — Automated Decision Systems
H.340 proposes a broad framework for developers and deployers of automated decision systems used for consequential decisions, including employment decisions. The official status page lists the bill in the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development and shows no enacted act.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →LATEST COVERAGE
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State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance
The workplace-AI rulebook is not one category of law. It is a mix of operative statutes and regulations, a future-effective Colorado framework, city-level requirements, pending bills, and agency interpretations of existing law.
CA
California’s automated-employment rules bring workplace AI into sharper focus
The effective regulations connect automated decision systems to existing civil-rights duties and employment-record retention—not a new standalone AI statute.
IL
Illinois AI employment amendments are now effective
The Human Rights Act now expressly addresses AI used in recruitment, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and other employment activity.