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Introduced December 11, 2025 by Pramila Jayapal · Last progress December 11, 2025
The bill substantially strengthens gig workers' transparency, privacy limits on surveillance, pay protections, and enforcement tools, but does so at the cost of significant new compliance, privacy and proprietary disclosure risks, greater legal uncertainty and litigation concentration, and potential higher prices or reduced platform services as smaller actors adjust or exit.
Gig and app-based workers (drivers, couriers, delivery and other platform workers) get substantially greater transparency and procedural protections: clearer definitions of worker status, definitions of 'time worked', machine-readable notices about monitoring and automated decision systems (ADS), timely access to records (including agent access), anti-retaliation protections, and stronger remedies
Ride‑hail and similar drivers receive clearer pay transparency and a 25% cap on platform 'take rates', increasing the driver share of fares and making earnings and platform fees more visible to consumers and workers
Stronger enforcement and remedies: workers gain a private right to sue with statutory/actual/liquidated damages, expanded whistleblower protections (including temporary reinstatement), and the Secretary receives broad investigatory powers plus a dedicated penalty-funded enforcement account
Platforms and third-party vendors face substantial new compliance, reporting, auditing, data‑storage, and litigation costs that are likely to be passed on to workers (lower take-home pay), consumers (higher fares/prices), or result in reduced service or market exits
Smaller platforms, vendors, and contractors risk market exit, reduced features, or severe financial exposure due to joint-and-several liability and large statutory penalties, which could shrink competition and innovation in platform services
Concentrating interpretive authority in agencies and requiring D.C. venue with deference to agency constructions, plus a 3‑year statute of limitations, reduces judicial checks and may limit or delay external review of harmful rules
Based on analysis of 15 sections of legislative text.
Requires app-based platforms to disclose how they monitor and make automated decisions about workers, limits certain uses of worker data, and gives workers new rights and remedies. It mandates fast rulemaking by the Secretary of Labor, sets timelines for notices and pay statements, creates data-reporting and retention rules, bans pre-dispute arbitration and secrecy clauses, prohibits retaliation, and authorizes civil and administrative enforcement including penalties and a special investigation fund. For on-demand transportation, it caps platform take rates at 25% and restricts individualized wage‑setting based on sensitive or individualized data.