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Senate labor committee advances three bills to curb workplace AI surveillance and require displacement notice
Summary
The Minnesota Senate Labor Committee voted to recommend three related bills — SF 4576 (displacement notice), SF 4686 (electronic monitoring limits), and SF 4689 (automated decision systems safeguards) — after testimony from labor, business and agency witnesses and adoption of author amendments. The measures now move to state and local government committees.
Chair McEwen on Thursday opened a Senate Labor Committee hearing and the panel recommended passage of three bills intended to limit abusive workplace uses of artificial intelligence and require notice when AI-driven displacement occurs.
Senator Maye Quaid, the bills’ author, summarized the package as a set of common-sense protections that preserve the benefits of new technologies while preventing their misuse. “Automated decision systems cannot terminate a worker,” she said, and workplaces must provide pre- and post-deployment notices, access to data, and a human review and appeal process for employment decisions influenced by AI.
Why it matters: Testimony showed sharply different perspectives. Aaron Rosenthal, research director at North Star Policy Action, argued the bills address rapidly…
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