California Sets Bold Plan to Shield Workers From AI Disruption

Governor Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order to prepare California workers and small businesses for AI-driven disruption, mobilizing state agencies, labor experts, universities, and industry to develop data dashboards and early-warning systems, expand training, and explore protections such as severance, unemployment support, and worker ownership, while revising the WARN Act and launching a statewide deliberative process to ensure broad-based benefits from AI-driven productivity.