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September 12, 2019

Opinion: Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation

By Emma Coalition

Presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and creating a federal agency to oversee automation. Mayor de Blasio’s proposed agency – the Federal Automation and Worker Protection Agency (FAWPA) – would create a permitting process for any company seeking to increase automation that would displace workers. Approval of those plans would be conditioned on protecting workers; if their jobs are eliminated through automation, the company would be required to offer their workers new jobs with equal pay, or a severance package in line with their tenure at the company.

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Source: Wired

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