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Official title: To promote transparency and accountability in covered digital labor platform work, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Pramila Jayapal · Last progress December 11, 2025
The bill tilts the gig economy strongly toward worker protections, transparency, and enforcement—boosting pay fairness and rights for many gig workers—but does so at the cost of substantial compliance, privacy, and litigation burdens that may push platforms to raise prices, reduce services, or limit opportunities for some workers and consumers.
Millions of gig and app-based workers gain clearer legal protections, definitions (e.g., "time worked," "take rate"), and rights to transparency about monitoring and automated decisions, making it easier to claim pay, challenge deactivation, and enforce workplace protections.
Workers keep a larger, clearer share of pay and stronger pay-fairness rules — including a 25% cap on platform take rates (exclusive of tips), itemized receipts, weekly pay statements, and bans on unexplained pay differentials — increasing take-home earnings and transparency.
The bill strengthens enforcement and remedies: the Labor Department must investigate and publish industry data, workers get civil remedies and penalties against violating platforms, and public education is required so workers better know rights and complaint processes.
Platforms face substantial new compliance costs, liability, and administrative burdens that are likely to be passed on to workers or consumers (through lower pay, fewer gigs, higher fares, or reduced service availability), potentially shrinking opportunities for many gig workers.
To avoid liability or disclosure of trade secrets, platforms may restrict third-party integrations, narrow or rollback features, or exit marginal markets — reducing innovation, useful tools, and platform availability in some areas.
The bill concentrates regulatory and judicial authority (broad Secretary discretion, deferential judicial review standard, mandatory D.C. venue, filing deadlines), which could create uneven rulemaking across administrations and make it harder for states or private parties to obtain timely, local judicial relief.
Based on analysis of 15 sections of legislative text.
Mandates algorithmic transparency, worker data access and protections, limits platform algorithmic pay-setting, caps ride-hail take rates at 25%, and creates enforcement and private suits.
Requires app-based work platforms to disclose how they monitor workers and use automated decision systems, to retain and share monitoring data with workers, and to protect workers from adverse algorithmic actions. For ride-hail services it caps platform "take rates" at 25% (exclusive of tips), bans certain algorithmic pay-setting and sensitive-attribute inferences, creates whistleblower protections, and gives the Secretary of Labor enforcement authority plus a private right of action for workers and others.