{"id":215632,"date":"2026-05-18T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-in-employment-decisions-new-compliance-considerations-for-california-employers-freeman-mathis-gary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:15:12","slug":"ai-in-employment-decisions-new-compliance-considerations-for-california-employers-freeman-mathis-gary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-in-employment-decisions-new-compliance-considerations-for-california-employers-freeman-mathis-gary\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in employment decisions: New compliance considerations for California employers | Freeman Mathis &#038; Gary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/ai-in-employment-decisions-new-6606793\/\">AI in employment decisions: New compliance considerations for California employers | Freeman Mathis &#038; Gary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/ai-in-employment-decisions-new-6606793\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/ai-in-employment-decisions-new-6606793\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 11:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New amendments to California employment regulations now hold employers liable for discrimination through the use of Automated-Decision Systems (ADS) in hiring and employment practices, effective October 1, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>ADS are defined broadly to include any computational processes, including AI-assisted tools, that affect employment decisions.<\/li>\n<li>The regulations integrate ADS into the definition of an &#8220;agent,&#8221; meaning decisions made by automated systems are treated as decisions made by the employer for liability purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Specific prohibited practices include using ADS for discriminatory assessments such as by race, national origin, gender, disability, or other protected characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>Employers are expected to ensure their use of ADS complies with the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), similar to human-made decisions, as AI is not considered a neutral intermediary but an extension of the employer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI in employment decisions: New compliance considerations for California employers | Freeman Mathis &#038; Gary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.16387_2958.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215634,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632\/revisions\/215634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}