Katie Kilkenny at The Hollywood Reporter reports ABC News' Unionized Writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their workplace. Staffers who belong to the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) have voted to ratify a contract that offers some employment safeguards if the newsroom adopts the technology. That includes an agreement that the company will not lay off current Staff Employees due to the use of generative AI and will give three weeks' notice to full-time temporary Employees if any shifts are curtailed as a result of the technology. The new three-year pact additionally requires management to give Union Members advance notice if the company plans to make the use of generative AI Systems a requirement of their jobs. The company will be obliged to negotiate any impacts of the technology with the Union and meet with the Union semi-annually to review its employment of the technology. The contract offers Members a minimum pay increase of 3.5% in every year of the deal, with an additional raise of more than 17% for Desk Assistants in year one.

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