Makes employment decisions

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It makes or scores decisions about a person's work: hiring, promotion, termination, pay, task allocation, or monitoring and evaluating workers.

This covers a resume screener, a video-interview scorer, and software that allocates tasks to workers or monitors and rates their performance.

It implies Makes high-risk automated decisions, so the rules written for every such decision reach it too.

What does not

A scheduling tool that applies a rule a person set and can see does not count in the same way.

Often confused with Makes high-risk automated decisions.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of 19 Oct 2026. The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

This activity implies Makes high-risk automated decisions, so every law that names that activity reaches it too. These areas of law reach it only that way:

• Cybersecurity law: 91 laws in 67 jurisdictions, through Makes high-risk automated decisions

  Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

• Product and AI liability law: 24 laws in 22 jurisdictions, through Makes high-risk automated decisions

  Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

The law written for employment decisions

Every law in the LexLint law library written for employment decisions, by jurisdiction, each country before its states and cities, as of 19 Oct 2026. The domain tags are our reading of each law's scope, not the publisher's.

Jurisdiction	Law
European Union	AI Act, Article 26(7) (informing workers before workplace use) from 2 Dec 2027, in 13 months Platform Work Directive, Ban on One-to-Many Biometric Identification of Persons Performing Platform Work (Article 7(1)(f)) from 2 Dec 2026, in 6 weeks Platform Work Directive, Limits on Processing Personal Data by Automated Monitoring and Decision-Making Systems (Article 7(1)(a) to (e), (2) and (3)) from 2 Dec 2026, in 6 weeks Platform Work Directive, Transparency, Human Oversight and Human Review of Automated Systems (Articles 9 to 11) from 2 Dec 2026, in 6 weeks
Ontario	Employment Standards Act, 2000, use of artificial intelligence in job postings
Croatia	Labour Act, Articles 221.g to 221.i, Algorithmic Management of Work Through Digital Labour Platforms
Finland	Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, Sections 15 to 17, Genetic Testing and Camera Surveillance of Employees
Germany	Betriebsverfassungsgesetz (BetrVG) Sections 80(3), 90(1) No. 3 and 95(2a), Works Council Rights on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
Italy	Legislative Decree 216/2003, equal treatment in employment and working conditions Decreto Legislativo 179/2026 Art. 41, Employer Decisions Assisted by AI Systems (Final Decisions Reserved to a Person) from 23 Oct 2026, in 3 days
Portugal	Labour Code as Amended by Law 13/2023, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Articles 106(3)(s), 24(3) and 3(3)(o)
Spain	Estatuto de los Trabajadores Article 64.4.d), Algorithmic Management Works Council Information Right Real Decreto 723/2026 Article 3(2)(k), Written Notice to Workers of Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems
United States	Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, unlawful employment practices
California	CCPA Automated Decisionmaking Technology Regulations Employment Automated Decision Systems Act (SB 947) from 1 Jul 2027, in 8 months Employment Technological Displacement Notice (SB 951) from 1 Jan 2027, in 2 months
Colorado	SB 26-189 (2026), Automated Decision-Making Technology Act from 1 Jan 2027, in 2 months
Connecticut	Employer AI-Related Layoff Disclosure to the Labor Department Automated Employment-Related Decision Technology Act from 1 Oct 2027, in 11 months
Idaho	Genetic Testing Privacy Act, enforcement Genetic Testing Privacy Act, restrictions on employers
Illinois	Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act Illinois Human Rights Act, use of artificial intelligence in employment decisions
Missouri	Genetic information, insurer and employer restrictions, confidentiality duty
New Jersey	New Jersey Disparate Impact Discrimination Rules, Automated Employment Decision Tools AI-based electronic monitoring and automated employment decision systems in employment and public services (S4075 / A4981) proposed
New York City	Automated Employment Decision Tools Bias Audit and Notice Law

Every law that names Makes high-risk automated decisions reaches employment decisions too, because it covers automated decisions of every kind: 587 laws in 204 jurisdictions. 189 of those jurisdictions have no law written for employment decisions.

Counterparties that usually come with it

• an applicant-tracking system or job board
• a background-check provider

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

For an application

History

In the registry since version 1.4, 16 Oct 2026.

Added for Automated Employment Decision Tools Bias Audit and Notice Law (New York City), the law that turns on it.

In the glossary: Makes employment decisions.

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