The Stop Spying Bosses Act would protect and empower workers by creating transparency and guardrails for employers engaging in surveillance practices
Last year, Casey urged the Department of Labor to take action on the emerging, disturbing trend of employers tracking, monitoring, managing, and discipling employees using novel technologies such as artificial intelligence
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) are introducing legislation to protect and empower workers against invasive and exploitative surveillance technologies. Employers are increasingly using these technologies to monitor workers’ activities, on and off duty, and penalize them without oversight, accountability, or transparency. The Stop Spying Bosses Act would safeguard workers’ autonomy and dignity, and empower them by creating much-needed standards, protections, and oversight to counter exploitative technologies that are spreading unchecked.
“As the power imbalance in workplaces continues to grow, employers are increasingly using invasive surveillance technologies that allow them to track their workers like pieces of equipment,” said Senator Casey. “American workers are the backbone of our country, and they deserve to be treated with basic dignity at work. The Stop Spying Bosses Act is a first step to level the playing field for workers by holding their bosses accountable for using invasive technology against them.”
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