Employment: technological displacement: notice

Workers and public agencies will receive details about jobs displaced by technology, while the state will publish displacement data and study AI’s effects on hiring.

What the law does ​

• Requires Cal/WARN notices for technology-driven mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations to identify affected jobs and locations, automated job functions, and the type of technology involved.
• Requires these notices to state at the top, “This notice is for a technology displacement.”
• Requires the Employment Development Department to publish notice summaries online and quarterly statewide summaries of reported technology displacements.
• Requires the Employment Development Department to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2028, on AI’s effects on hiring, industries, occupations, and potential notice rules for technology-driven hiring cessations.

Who it affects ​

• Employers covered by Cal/WARN that carry out qualifying mass layoffs, relocations, or terminations substantially caused by AI or automation.
• Employees whose positions are displaced in qualifying actions.
• The Employment Development Department.

Context ​

The AI-hiring report requirement expires January 1, 2029.