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Committee advances AB 1331 to curb invasive workplace surveillance; unions support, broad business opposition
Summary
AB 1331 would limit employer surveillance in private spaces and off‑duty locations and require narrower limits on certain monitoring; labor unions and worker groups strongly supported the bill while hospitals, chambers and many business groups opposed or urged exemptions for safety‑sensitive settings.
Assemblymember Elwari’s AB 1331 was presented as a modernization of workplace privacy laws to respond to increasingly invasive employer technologies such as wearable trackers, facial recognition, speech monitoring and algorithmic productivity systems.
Labor unions, worker advocates and public‑interest groups testified in strong support, describing how surveillance disproportionately affects lower‑wage, Black, Latino and immigrant workers and can harm…
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