Empowering App-Based Workers Act

The Empowering App-Based Workers Act aims to increase transparency and accountability for firms that run digital labor platforms (apps that assign and manage work for app-based workers). It would require platform providers to disclose to workers and to consumers how electronic monitoring tools and automated decision systems (algorithmic processes) are used to determine pay, assignments, and other work-related decisions. The bill also creates detailed pay reporting (per assignment and weekly), requires itemized receipts for each task, and mandates regular reporting to the Department of Labor. In addition, the act provides a specific cap on the platform’s take rate for on-demand ride services (ride-hail) and clarifies the broad definitions of who is covered and what data counts as “data” about workers. Taken together, the bill is designed to curb wage theft, misclassification, price discrimination, and opaque labor-management practices by imposing extensive disclosure requirements and a ride-hail take-rate limit. Note: The text provided is partially shown and focuses on sections related to transparency, definitions, and initial disclosures. The complete bill in full text would include other provisions (e.g., enforcement, additional regulatory details) not fully visible here.