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The bill improves transparency about AI's labor-market effects and helps target retraining and policy responses, but it does so at the cost of added compliance burdens for businesses and risks to proprietary and employee privacy, with potential reputational harms for firms and local economies.
State and local governments, policymakers, and researchers: quarterly AI-related reporting will create timely, industry- and NAICS-level labor-market data that can be used to design targeted workforce programs and regional economic responses.
Workers displaced by AI, especially low‑income and middle‑class individuals: the reports will reveal how many employees are being retrained or assisted, enabling programs to identify and target displaced workers for retraining and other supports.
Covered employers, including many small businesses: allowing submissions through existing DOL or Census survey channels reduces the need for new reporting systems and limits additional paperwork for many firms.
Small and mid-sized employers and local economies: quarterly reporting will impose additional administrative and compliance costs that may be burdensome for firms newly covered and could deter hiring or investment.
Employees and private firms: publishing underlying data risks exposing proprietary business information or sensitive employee-level data if confidentiality protections fail, harming privacy and trade secrets.
Firms, investors, consumers, and affected communities: public quarterly disclosure of AI‑linked layoffs could stigmatize firms or sectors and trigger adverse investor or consumer responses before context or remediation is available, amplifying economic harm.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires covered entities to file quarterly Labor disclosures on AI-related layoffs, hires, unfilled positions, retraining, and industry NAICS codes; Labor/Census must compile and publish analyses.
Official title: Require reports regarding artificial intelligence-related job impacts, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 5, 2025 by Joshua David Hawley · Last progress November 5, 2025
Requires employers and other covered entities to file quarterly reports with the Secretary of Labor about how artificial intelligence affects jobs in the United States (including territories). Reports must list AI‑related layoffs, AI‑driven hires, jobs left unfilled because of AI, retraining efforts, and other Secretary‑requested AI job impact data, including NAICS industry codes. The Secretary will collect data via existing Department of Labor or Census surveys, produce quarterly and annual summaries and analyses, and publish reports and underlying data.