Restricts businesses, including nonprofits, in the use of electronic monitoring of employees and the use of automated decision systems for employment-related decisions; allows electronic monitoring if employers can demonstrate necessity, if they use the least restrictive means, involving the smallest number of employees, with tightly controlled access to data; requires notice of monitoring to employees, and specifies form and contents of notice; requires notice of electronic monitoring to be in the employee's primary language; waives notice requirements where electronic monitoring is used to produce evidence where employer reasonably suspects an employee of wrongdoing; requires employers to disclose all electronic monitoring systems to employees annually; prohibits electronic monitoring of employees in private areas, while off-duty, while exercising protected legal rights, in the employee's private home or vehicle, or to obtain information about protected characteristics, and other related contexts; restricts electronic monitoring through personal electronic devices; requires notice to employees when electronic decision systems are being used for employment-related decisions affecting employees; requires employers to create written impact assessments of using automated decision systems before using them; requires employers to protect data gathered by electronic monitoring systems; provides employees with a right to access and correct data.
State Name
Vermont
Bill #
H.262
Status
Adjourned; Not Enacted
Category
3. Workforce
Subcategory
Employee Protections
Status Text
Introduced or Prefiled
Year Proposed
2025
State Taxonomy
Bill Page
http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2026/H.262