This bill requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to prepare and publish the Contingent Work Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey on an annual basis, starting with the first CPS published after the bill becomes law. The CWS must include information on "covered technologies," which the bill describes as systems — including artificial intelligence as defined by an existing statute — that influence or guide human decision-making in work or that adapt and learn over time. The bill directs BLS to keep the supplement comparable across years when practicable, to document and publish any material changes in definitions or methods, and to make results publicly available in timely, machine-readable formats. If BLS fails to publish the supplement as required, the Commissioner must report to the House Education and Workforce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee explaining the reasons and expected publication date.
If you are a worker, employer, researcher, or policymaker, this would mean more frequent public data on contingent and nonstandard work and on the use of technologies that affect job tasks, productivity, work pace, scheduling, compensation, employment stability, classification, or worker autonomy. The data will be intended to be comparable across years and available in machine-readable formats for analysis. The bill asks BLS to consider technologies that assign, evaluate, monitor, or manage work by automated or algorithmic means.
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