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Bill would require public employers to bargain with unions on AI adoption that affects wages, hours or conditions
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House Bill 16-22 would require public employers covered by Washington collective bargaining statutes to negotiate with employee representatives before adopting or changing the use of artificial intelligence if the change affects wages, hours or other terms and conditions of employment, committee staff and witnesses said on Feb. 5.
House Bill 16-22 would require public employers covered by Washington’s collective bargaining frameworks to negotiate with employee representatives over the adoption or change in use of artificial intelligence when that adoption would affect wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment, committee staff told the Labor and Workplace Standards Committee on Feb. 5.
Ben McCarthy, committee staff, said the bill applies to employees covered by the Personnel System Reform Act (PSRA) and the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Act (PECBA) and defines artificial intelligence to include "machine learning and related technology that use data to train statistical models for the purpose of enabling computer systems to perform tasks normally associated with…
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