Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Oversight and Accountability, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
# Summary of H.R. 7621: No Robot Bosses Act
The No Robot Bosses Act would restrict how employers use artificial intelligence and automated decision systems in hiring, firing, scheduling, and other employment decisions. The bill applies to employers with 11 or more workers and covers job applicants and current employees.
Under the legislation, employers could not rely solely on automated systems for employment decisions and would face strict requirements before using AI outputs in such decisions, including pre-deployment testing for discrimination, annual independent testing for bias, and proof of compliance with existing employment discrimination laws. Employers would also have to provide workers with detailed explanations of how automated systems were used in decisions affecting them and allow workers to dispute and appeal those decisions to a human. Additionally, workers could opt out of being managed by automated systems and request human oversight instead.
The bill creates a new Technology and Worker Protection Division within the Department of Labor to enforce these rules and would allow workers and labor organizations to sue employers for violations, with statutory damages ranging from $5,000 to $40,000 per violation, or up to $100,000 for willful violations. State attorneys general and privacy regulators could also bring enforcement actions. The law includes whistleblower protections for workers who report violations and applies to federal employees, congressional staff, and private sector workers.
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