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The bill increases transparency and tracking of AI-driven workforce changes to help policymakers and support retraining, at the cost of new ongoing reporting burdens and potential proprietary-data risks that may especially strain small and non-public employers.
Workers displaced by AI (particularly low-income and middle-class workers) will be tracked and counted, enabling targeted retraining and workforce-development programs.
State and local governments, and federal policymakers, will receive quarterly data on AI-driven hires and layoffs so they can detect labor-market shifts faster and respond with policy or programs.
Communities, researchers, and small-business stakeholders will gain public transparency on industry-level AI adoption (NAICS reporting), improving understanding of sectoral impacts and informing local planning.
Small and other covered employers will face added quarterly compliance costs and administrative burden, which could disproportionately strain smaller firms and divert resources from operations or hiring.
Non-public companies and small employers risk exposing proprietary workforce strategies or sensitive staffing data through frequent public reporting, potentially harming competitiveness or revealing trade information.
Early reports may be of limited usefulness because firms could interpret 'substantially due to AI' inconsistently, producing data quality and comparability problems that blunt policymakers' and researchers' ability to draw clear conclusions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires covered entities to file quarterly disclosures of AI-related layoffs, hires, unfilled positions, and retraining and requires the Secretary to publish quarterly and annual analyses and data.
Requires covered employers and other covered entities to file quarterly reports about AI-related job impacts in the United States and its territories. Reports must list counts of layoffs due substantially to AI, hires driven substantially by AI, positions left unfilled because AI replaced them, people being retrained because of AI, and other AI-related impacts; the Department of Labor must publish quarterly data and analyses and coordinate survey changes and regulations with other agencies.
Introduced November 5, 2025 by Joshua David Hawley · Last progress November 5, 2025