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This bill, titled the "Empowering App-Based Workers Act," aims to increase transparency and accountability for companies that use digital labor platforms, which are apps that manage work assignments. It mandates that these "covered digital labor platform providers" must disclose detailed information to their app-based workers about how electronic monitoring tools and automated decision systems (algorithms that make or assist in decisions) are used to determine work assignments, pay, and pricing. Workers will receive itemized receipts for each assignment and weekly pay statements detailing various components of their earnings and the platform's "take rate" (the percentage of consumer payment kept by the platform). The bill also establishes a 25% cap on the take rate for on-demand transportation services and prohibits individualized algorithmic wage setting that leads to pay disparities for similar work, unless justified by cost differences or collective bargaining agreements. Furthermore, it restricts the types of data platforms can collect and use, prohibits retaliatory actions against workers who exercise their rights under the act, and allows workers, consumers, and authorized agents to bring civil lawsuits for violations, with provisions for damages and penalties. The act also clarifies that it does not preempt stronger state laws and invalidates predispute arbitration agreements and joint-action waivers for app-based workers.

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