Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that restricts employer use of automated decision systems in disciplinary and termination decisions in California.

Highlights:

• Prohibits an employer from using an Automated Decision System (ADS) to do the following (Sec. 2):

• Prevent compliance with or violate any federal, state, or local labor, occupational health and safety, employment, or civil rights laws or regulations;

• Infer a workers protected status;

• Conduct predictive behavior analysis on a worker with the intention of using the analysis to make an employment-related decision; or

• Predict and take adverse action against a worker for exercising their legal rights, including, but not limited to, rights guaranteed by state and federal employment and labor law.

• Prohibits employers from relying solely on an ADS when making a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision (Sec. 2).

• Requires employers who relied on ADS for disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decisions to provide affected workers with a written postuse notice at the time the employer informs the worker of the decision (Sec. 3).

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