AERI

Advocating for transparency and fairness in hiring

The AI Employment Rights Initiative is a multi-stakeholder alliance dedicated to regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring and workforce management. We advocate for transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI-powered hiring systems to prevent discrimination, privacy violations, and algorithmic bias.

We believe that hiring decisions should be fair, explainable, and free from AI-driven bias that disproportionately excludes candidates based on age, race, disability, gender, and socioeconomic background. Our coalition unites civil rights organizations, AI policy experts, lawmakers, researchers, and labor unions to push for stronger regulations, legal enforcement, and corporate accountability in AI hiring.

Innovation Meets Justice

Data Brokerage
Labor Market Analytics Firms

Infringement on Privacy Through Web Crawling

Applying for a Job is Not Consent for Selling, Storing and Analyzing Our Personal Data Found Through Web Stalking

Labor market analytics firms aggregate and analyze employment data to provide insights for businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies. The company collects vast amounts of workforce-related data, including job postings, worker profiles, and labor trends, to support skills-based hiring and workforce development.

Data brokering in hiring involves collecting and selling workforce-related information, including:

Job histories, skills, and credentials (extracted from resumes, job applications, and professional networking sites).
Behavioral and psychometric assessments (analyzed from pre-hire evaluations and tracking systems).
Salary expectations and employment trends (aggregated from HR databases and job boards).

Lightcast.io and similar labor analytics firms gather this data from various sources, including public job boards, corporate ATS systems, government labor reports, and third-party databases—often without workers being explicitly aware that their information is being analyzed and sold to clients.

Strategic Goals of the Coalition

📌 OUR POLICY DEMANDS

1️⃣ AI Transparency in Hiring (Right to Explanation)

Companies must disclose when and how AI is used in hiring decisions.
Applicant's right to opt out of AI screening
Require AI-driven hiring systems to disclose their decision-making process.
Ensure job applicants have access to explanations for AI-generated hiring decisions (GDPR Article 22 compliance).

2️⃣ Bias Audits & Fairness Testing

Mandate independent audits of AI hiring tools for racial, gender, and age discrimination.
Establish federal AI hiring standards through EEOC and FTC regulations.

3️⃣ Data Privacy Protections (Ban on Unlawful Biometric Data Collection)

Prohibit AI-driven hiring systems from collecting biometric data (facial recognition, voice analysis) without explicit consent (BIPA, CCPA compliance).
Strengthen GDPR and U.S. AI privacy laws to ensure data minimization in hiring algorithms.
Ban data brokerage and creation of applicant profiles.

4️⃣ Corporate Accountability & Legal Enforcement

Push for FTC enforcement actions against companies violating AI fairness laws.
Support class-action lawsuits and regulatory penalties..

Fair AI

Championing equality in hiring

Policy Advocacy & Legislative Action

FAIR AI REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

AI hiring algorithms are being used to make life-changing decisions—who gets a job and who doesn’t—but they lack transparency, accountability, and fairness.

We are launching this coalition to ensure that AI hiring tools comply with anti-discrimination laws, protect workers’ rights, and promote ethical AI practices in employment.

Advocacy for fair AI practices

Join us in advocating for fair and transparent AI hiring practices.

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Mandatory AI audits

Support our demand for mandatory audits of AI hiring systems.

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Legal protections for job applicants

Empower job applicants with legal protections against AI bias.

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Litigation & enforcement actions

File complaints against for unfair AI hiring practices.

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Public awareness & AI hiring transparency

We expose AI hiring bias through media campaigns and research collaborations.

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Corporate accountability & legal enforcement

Push for FTC enforcement and support class-action lawsuits for AI hiring bias.

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