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

- **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**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2023-07-05
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(1) and (b)(2); 6 RCNY Section 5-303

## What the duty requires

Candidates and employees who reside in New York City must be told, at least ten business days before an automated employment decision tool is used to assess them, that such a tool will be used in the hiring or promotion decision, and which job qualifications and characteristics the tool will assess. The DCWP rules allow the notice to be given on the careers page, in the job posting, or by mail or email, and require that it reach the person before the tool is applied.

## What an organisation does about it

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

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure

## 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-candidate-notice
- **Official source**: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/automated-employment-decision-tools.page
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(1) and (b)(2); 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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