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Rules / SB 947 / Labor Code Section 1526

Labor Code Section 1526, SB 947 (California)

Do not discharge, threaten, demote, suspend or otherwise retaliate against an employee for using rights under the part, complaining to the Labor Commissioner, or helping enforce it.

WTA-R-US-CA-0008-005 Permanent ID

Scope

Employer includes public employers, labor contractors and farm labor contractors (1520(d)(3)). ADS excludes spam filters, firewalls, antivirus, calculators and databases (1520(c)). Does not apply where a collective agreement expressly waives it, or to uses required by certain federal aerospace or defence obligations (1526.5, 1526.6).

Dates. SB 947, Chapter 859, Statutes of 2026, approved 30 Sep 2026; Part 5.5.5 operative 1 Jul 2027 (Lab. Code 1526.7).

Penalty. Civil penalty of $500 per violation (Lab. Code 1526.1(e)); enforced by the Labor Commissioner and public prosecutors, with injunctive relief, punitive damages and attorney's fees available in civil actions (1526.1(a), (b), (d)).

SourceLabor Code Section 1526 of the Employment: Automated Decision Systems (SB 947, ‘No Robo Bosses Act’)Checked against the official text on 8 Oct 2026.

History

No changes to this obligation since we started recording on 8 Oct 2026. All changes

Cite this obligation

WTA-R-US-CA-0008-005: Labor Code Section 1526, Employment: Automated Decision Systems (SB 947, ‘No Robo Bosses Act’). wheresthe.ai, https://wheresthe.ai/id/WTA-R-US-CA-0008-005/ (checked 8 Oct 2026).

Other obligations under SB 947

  1. WTA-R-US-CA-0008-001Labor Code Section 1522(a)EmployersFrom 1 Jul 2027

    Do not use an automated decision system to violate labour, safety, employment or civil rights laws, to infer an employee's protected status, or to predict and punish workers for exercising legal rights.

  2. WTA-R-US-CA-0008-002Labor Code Section 1522(b)-(c)EmployersFrom 1 Jul 2027

    Do not rely solely on an automated decision system for discipline or termination; when relying primarily on its output, have a human corroborate it, and do not use output that cannot be corroborated or is inaccurate.

  3. WTA-R-US-CA-0008-003Labor Code Section 1522(d)-(e)EmployersFrom 1 Jul 2027

    Give an employee disciplined or terminated primarily using an automated decision system, on request, a meaningful, objective description of their own data the system used, anonymising other people's personal information.

  4. WTA-R-US-CA-0008-004Labor Code Section 1524EmployersFrom 1 Jul 2027

    Give an employee, when informing them of discipline or termination primarily based on an automated decision system, a plain-language stand-alone written notice stating this, that a human corroborated it, a contact person, and non-retaliation rights.