The basic facts about the particularly poor working conditions at Amazon warehouses are widely known: injury rates that are double the industry average, bodies being worn down in a matter of weeks, and the mental distress that follows from constant surveillance and inhumane productivity rates. Despite growing awareness of the problem, the jobs still suck.

AB 701 in California is one attempt to help change that. The bill has passed the state assembly and is expected to reach the state senate floor next week. It targets algorithmically generated and enforced quotas in warehouses; it is a response, specifically, to Amazon. The company is the country’s second-largest private employer — it now employs nearly 1 million people in the United States, a number that doesn’t include the many delivery drivers who are employed by third-party contractors — and such domination is the rule in California, too. The state’s Inland Empire region is home to the country’s largest warehouse cluster, and Amazon employs some forty thousand people there.

AB 701 is the first bill in the United States that would require warehouses to disclose productivity quotas, the “rate” Amazon workers describe as governing their every move while on the job — Amazon is currently very reluctant to discuss specifics about its rates. Under AB 701, employers would need to provide these quotas in writing to workers, “including the quantified number of tasks to be performed, or materials to be produced or handled, within the defined time period, and any potential adverse employment action that could result from failure to meet the quota.”