Compliance Stuff

Artificial intelligence is already changing how employers make staffing decisions. Some companies are using AI to improve efficiency. Others are using automation to reduce headcount, delay hiring, or restructure work. California lawmakers are now paying attention. Senate Bill 951 would require employers with more than 100 employees to provide 90 days’ advance notice when AI or automation results in the loss of 25 or more jobs. The bill also would require employers to notify the state when they stop hiring for a position because AI or automation has taken over that work . The bill calls that notice a “technology hiring disruption notice.” That requirement would be a significant expansion of traditional layoff notice obligations. Existing laws generally focus on actual job losses. SB 951 would focus not only on employees who lose jobs, but also on positions that disappear because technology replaces the need to hire. Even if SB 951 does not become law in its current form, the bill is wor...

The California Legislature recently introduced a bill ( Senate Bill (SB) 951 ) that would establish the California Worker Technological Displacement Act—a first-of-its-kind law that would require employers to provide advance written notice when artificial intelligence (AI) or automation drives workforce reductions or hiring freezes. 0:00 8:42 Quick Hits California Senate Bill 951 would require employers to provide at least ninety days’ advance written notice before eliminating positions due to AI or automation affecting twenty-five or more workers or twenty-five percent of the workforce, and to separately notify state agencies when they permanently stop hiring for roles replaced by AI. The bill would protect affected workers at companies with more than one hundred employees by prohibiting discharge without reasonable cause during the notice period and granting a right of first bid on other open positions within the company. Noncompliant employers would face liability for back pay and b...

  California lawmakers introduced two bills yesterday that would significantly restrict how employers use artificial intelligence to make employment decisions. The coordinated effort by the California Labor Federation targets AI-driven job losses with a two-pronged approach: requiring human oversight when AI is used to fire or discipline workers, and mandating extended advance notice before conducting mass layoffs driven by automation. If enacted, the measures would impose some of the strictest AI employment regulations in the nation. Here’s what California employers (and multistate employers watching the trend) need to know about these February 2 proposals. SB 947: The “No Robo Bosses” Act Returns State Senator Jerry McNerney’s  SB 947  is a revised version of legislation Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed last year.  We covered the original proposal  and  the governor’s veto  in detail in 2025. The core provision remains: employers would be prohibited from...