Crackdown on Tech in Workplace Could Hit Comp

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bills aiming to regulate how employers use technology to monitor employees and requiring disclosure of automated decision-making systems could have unintended consequences for California’s workers’ compensation system. A bill that would establish when and where workplace surveillance is appropriate included a provision that could have hampered fraud investigations by prohibiting employers from monitoring their workers at home, according to Jason Schmelzer, a lobbyist for the California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation. What’s more, Schmel...