# Employers and employment agencies must let candidates request an alternative selection process or accommodation

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: New York City Local Law 144 of 2021 on Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and DCWP implementing rules
- **Jurisdiction**: New York (United States)
- **Category**: human_oversight
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2023-07-05
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(1); 6 RCNY Section 5-303

## What the duty requires

The advance notice to candidates and employees must allow them to request an alternative selection process or a reasonable accommodation. The DCWP rules make clear that the law itself does not require the employer to provide an alternative process, but the request route must exist and accommodation requests remain governed by disability and human-rights law. Instructions for making the request must be included in the notice.

## What an organisation does about it

Provide a request mechanism in the candidate notice and record how each request was handled under the accommodation policy.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Decision explanation, human review and appeal route (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/decision-explanation-and-appeal-route
- Human oversight design and override procedure (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/human-oversight-and-override

## Parent instrument

- New York City Local Law 144 of 2021 on Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and DCWP implementing rules
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-automated-employment-decision-tools
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-automated-employment-decision-tools.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-alternative-process-request
- **Official source**: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/automated-employment-decision-tools.page
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(1); 6 RCNY Section 5-303
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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