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Joseph asks about remote accommodation complaints and AI hiring tools

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:48:17 · 1 min 23 sec

Joseph asks how many remote accommodation complaints CCHR receives and whether it has seen AI hiring tool complaints. Rivera says she does not have remote work numbers but it is a trend, and Kamuf Ward says CCHR works with DCWP on the bias audit law but has not had disability-focused AI complaints.

Rita C. Joseph

Yeah, thank you.

Rita C. Joseph

Chair, can I ask one more question?

Rita C. Joseph

Is that okay?

Rita C. Joseph

Thank you so much.

Rita C. Joseph

So how many remote accommodation complaints come in, including city employees?

Rita C. Joseph

Do you have numbers?

Stephanie Rivera

I don't have those particular numbers.

Stephanie Rivera

I believe we can try to pull them manually.

Stephanie Rivera

But it is, as I mentioned earlier, it is the trend that we're seeing in employment cases for remote work in particular, either full or partial.

Rita C. Joseph

Okay, okay, okay.

Rita C. Joseph

And I'm just going to close this one out.

Rita C. Joseph

Has CCHR received disability complaints involving AI hiring tool?

Rita C. Joseph

Does it court?

Rita C. Joseph

with DCWP, which enforces the city automated hiring law.

Rita C. Joseph

How is that working together?

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

Yeah, so we worked very closely with DCWP on kind of the guidelines for the bias audit law, which I remember part of the number, the intro or the actual one.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

But we have, to my knowledge, we have not had disability-focused complaints related to AI specifically, though there could be some of the hiring or employment cases involve automated decision-making technology.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

But we work very closely with DCWP both on kind of outreach and policy as well as on enforcement.

Rita C. Joseph

Enforcement and training as well as you say you do training into interagencies, correct?

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

Correct.

Rita C. Joseph

Thank you so much, chairs.