{"id":223924,"date":"2026-06-01T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-ai-use-mandates-notice-for-ai-caused-rifs-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:20:12","slug":"new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-ai-use-mandates-notice-for-ai-caused-rifs-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-ai-use-mandates-notice-for-ai-caused-rifs-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c\/","title":{"rendered":"New Connecticut Law Restricts Employer AI Use, Mandates Notice for AI-Caused RIFs | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak &#038; Stewart, P.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-7483920\/\">New Connecticut Law Restricts Employer AI Use, Mandates Notice for AI-Caused RIFs | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak &#038; Stewart, P.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-7483920\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/new-connecticut-law-restricts-employer-7483920\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 17:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On May 29, 2026, Governor Ned Lamont signed landmark AI legislation in Connecticut.<\/li>\n<li>The law regulates the use of AI in consumer, employment, and government sectors.<\/li>\n<li>It mandates employers to disclose AI usage in employment decisions to employees and applicants.<\/li>\n<li>The law specifies that the use of AI is not a defense against discrimination claims.<\/li>\n<li>The law prohibits employers from using AI tools as a defense against discrimination claims.<\/li>\n<li>It provides whistleblower protections for employees of AI developers who report safety concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Certain parts of the law take effect as early as October 1, 2026, with more provisions following on October 1, 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The law also includes a requirement for a study to assess AI&#8217;s impact on Connecticut&#8217;s workforce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Connecticut Law Restricts Employer AI Use, Mandates Notice for AI-Caused RIFs | Ogletree, Deakins,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.14838_2817.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223924","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\/223924"}],"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=223924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223926,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223924\/revisions\/223926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}