Worker’s Rights
in the AI Economy Plan
Artificial intelligence should make work safer, more productive, and more rewarding, not give corporations new tools to eliminate jobs, suppress wages, monitor workers, and avoid responsibility.
As AI changes the workplace, workers must have a real voice in how it is used, a fair share of the wealth it creates, and meaningful protection when their jobs are changed or eliminated.
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Guarantees workers collective bargaining rights over workplace artificial intelligence systems.
- Makes AI deployment, monitoring, staffing, workload, and productivity standards subjects of collective bargaining.
- Requires advance consultation with workers before employers introduce automated systems affecting their jobs.
- Prohibits retaliation against workers who question, challenge, or organize around workplace AI.
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Implements safeguards on employers to disclose when artificial intelligence monitors, evaluates, or directs workers.
- Provides clear notice before an AI system is introduced into the workplace.
- Discloses what information the system collects and how it affects employment decisions.
- Requires employers to maintain a current, worker-accessible inventory of workplace AI systems.
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Employers must provide paid training before artificial intelligence changes a workers’ duties or job requirements.
- Requires necessary AI training to occur during paid working hours without personal expense.
- Gives workers reasonable time to learn new systems before performance evaluations begin.
- Prohibits discipline or termination caused by an employer’s failure to provide adequate training.
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Guarantees human review before artificial intelligence can determine a worker’s livelihood.
- Prohibits fully automated hiring, firing, discipline, promotion, scheduling, and compensation decisions.
- Requires a written explanation of the information and reasoning behind adverse decisions.
- Gives workers a prompt appeal before a qualified human decision-maker with corrective authority.
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Gives workers control over personal information collected through workplace artificial intelligence.
- Limits collection to information demonstrably necessary for legitimate employment purposes.
- Gives workers the right to access, correct, and challenge information kept about them.
- Prohibits selling worker data or using it for advertising, insurance, credit, or unrelated training.
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Limits invasive workplace surveillance while protecting workers’ dignity, safety, and organizing rights.
- Prohibits monitoring workers while off duty or inside bathrooms, changing areas, and private spaces.
- Bans emotion recognition and continuous biometric tracking except for narrowly defined safety needs.
- Prohibits surveillance of union activity, organizing efforts, protected communications, and lawful workplace discussions.
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Holds employers responsible for every workplace decision made using artificial intelligence.
- Prevents employers from escaping responsibility by blaming software developers, vendors, or automated systems.
- Requires records sufficient to investigate how consequential employment decisions were made.
- Gives harmed workers access to reinstatement, back pay, damages, agency enforcement, and the courts.
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Prevents automated quotas and scheduling systems from endangering workers or denying breaks.
- Requires employers to disclose every quota, performance measurement, and scheduling formula affecting workers.
- Prohibits systems that interfere with meal periods, bathroom access, medical needs, or workplace safety.
- Allows workers to challenge unsafe expectations without discipline, retaliation, or lost compensation.
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Guarantees meaningful severance when profitable companies replace workers with artificial intelligence.
- Establishes minimum severance based on wages, service, and the scale of displacement.
- Continues health coverage and protects earned retirement benefits during the transition period.
- Prohibits companies from conditioning required severance on workers surrendering their legal rights.
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Guarantees displaced workers paid access to training for stable, in-demand careers when job is replaced by automation.
- Covers tuition, income support, childcare, transportation, equipment, and internet access during training.
- Partners with unions, apprenticeships, community colleges, and public universities to provide recognized credentials.
- Preserves worker choice and prohibits forcing displaced workers into unstable or lower-paying employment.
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Grants workers a share directly in productivity gains created through workplace improvements through artificial intelligence.
- Requires employers to publicly disclose documented productivity gains and cost savings.
- Shares gains through higher compensation, improved benefits, or shorter hours without reduced pay.
- Allows represented workers to determine productivity-sharing terms through collective bargaining.