Employers and employment agencies must notify candidates and employees before an automated tool is used

Practical action

Insert the tool notice and the assessed qualifications into job postings and application confirmations at least ten business days before screening.

Who does it apply to?

Employers and employment agencies assessing New York City residents with an automated employment decision tool.

Actors

Deployer / user organisation

Sectors

Employment and HR

Use cases

AI in hiring and employment

Applies from: 5 July 2023

Which controls meet this duty?

Satisfies: the control, operated properly, does the work the duty asks for. Supports: it contributes but the duty needs more. Each control page lists every other duty it serves, so work done once can be counted once.

• satisfiesProcessProduct owner · at launch and on material change
  AI interaction and use disclosure notices

  Serves 18 recorded duties · evidence: AI interaction or use notice, Notice catalogue, Notice wording approval

  Advance notice to candidates with the assessed criteria.

Templates that cover this duty

Generated from the records. Free · no account · links emailed to your work address. This duty is cited in each file with its source reference and a link back here.

• AI Agent Registry and Permission Matrix

  Register · XLSX and DOCX · v6

• EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit

  Kit · DOCX and XLSX · v44

• ISO/IEC 42001 Gap Assessment and Statement of Applicability

  Assessment · XLSX · v3

• NIST AI RMF ↔ EU AI Act ↔ ISO/IEC 42001 Crosswalk

  Crosswalk · XLSX · v5

All 10 templates that cover it →

What evidence would a reviewer expect?

Framework mappings

Original editorial crosswalks. They cite clause numbers only and reproduce no standard text; confidence reflects how direct the mapping is.

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Frequently asked questions

Cite this record

AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Employers and employment agencies must notify candidates and employees before an automated tool is used (NYC Local Law 144 (automated employment decision tools))” [AIPT-OBL-0101, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0101 (accessed 8 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Permanent id AIPT-OBL-0101: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.

Cite the official text alongside it: Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/automated-employment-decision-tools.page.

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Change history

Similar obligations in other instruments

• Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work — EU AI Act, European Union
• Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest — EU AI Act, European Union
• Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must explain individual decisions taken with high-risk AI on request — EU AI Act, European Union
• Frontier developers must publish a transparency report before deploying a new frontier model — California SB 53, California (United States)