Coverage scope
- Monitoring and notice requirements
- Biometric and location data
- Productivity and attention analytics
- Data retention and access
CURRENT COVERAGE
5 records · 2 articles
Relevant jurisdictions: California, New York, Washington.
REGULATORY RECORDS
California AB 1331 — Workplace Surveillance
AB 1331 prohibits employers from using workplace surveillance tools to monitor employees in workplace bathrooms, subject to specified exceptions, and gives employees a qualified right to leave tools behind when entering a bathroom. Signed September 30, 2026 as Chapter 851, it takes effect January 1, 2027.
California AB 1883 — Workplace Surveillance Tools
AB 1883 prohibits an employer from using an AI-enabled workplace surveillance tool on employees to recognize or infer emotional state or collect defined neural data.
Related coverage: California Enacts New Workplace AI Rules: What SB 947 and AB 1883 Require →California SB 7 — Employment: Automated Decision Systems
SB 7 proposed notice, access, correction, appeal, and human-oversight requirements for employer use of automated decision systems. The Governor vetoed the bill on October 13, 2025; it did not become law.
Related coverage: California AI Hiring Compliance in 2026: How FEHA and CCPA Automated Decision Rules Fit Together →New York Boundaries on Technology Act
The BOT Act proposes impact assessments, notice, restrictions on electronic monitoring and automated employment decision tools, data-access rights, and meaningful human oversight. The official Senate record currently lists S 10147 as active in the Senate Labor Committee.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Washington HB 1672 — Technology Used by Employers in the Workplace
HB 1672 proposes restrictions and procedural protections for employer electronic monitoring and automated decision systems. After a substitute received a do-pass recommendation, the bill was referred to House Appropriations and retained in that status for the 2026 session.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →LATEST COVERAGE
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California Enacts New Workplace AI Rules: What SB 947 and AB 1883 Require
California's new workplace-AI laws add human-review safeguards for certain automated discipline and termination decisions and restrict AI-enabled emotional-state inference and neural-data collection.
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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, future-effective frameworks, city-level requirements, pending bills, and agency interpretations of existing law.