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How to implement AI responsibly in HR
A step-by-step framework for HR leaders deploying AI in recruitment, people analytics, and workforce management — covering governance, bias audits, vendor due diligence and employee communication.
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All guides →EU AI Act and HR: what employers must do
How the EU AI Act classifies recruitment, monitoring and people-management systems as high risk, which obligations fall on employers as deployers, and the compliance deadlines that matter for HR.
UKEmployee monitoring in the UK: what the law allows
A practical guide to lawful workplace monitoring in the UK — the UK GDPR lawful basis, ICO expectations, when a DPIA is mandatory, covert monitoring, and how AI-driven productivity tracking changes the analysis.
UKAI in recruitment: UK discrimination law and bias audits
How the Equality Act 2010 applies to CV screening, video interviews and candidate scoring, what a defensible bias audit looks like, and the vendor questions that protect employers from tribunal claims.
UK & EUHow to write a generative AI policy for your workplace
A practical template and drafting guide for a generative AI policy — approved tools, confidential data rules, disclosure requirements, accountability for output, and how to handle misuse fairly.
UKAutomated decisions about employees: UK GDPR Article 22 explained
When an AI-supported decision about a worker counts as solely automated, what safeguards UK GDPR requires, what meaningful human review looks like, and how to answer an employee who challenges a score.
UKAI-driven restructuring and redundancy: the UK legal duties
What UK employers must get right when AI adoption drives role changes or redundancies — genuine redundancy tests, selection criteria, consultation duties, and the risks of using AI in the selection process itself.
Lex Bookshop — practical HR and employment-law books.
Curated handbooks, templates and guides for UK and US people professionals — written by employment-law specialists and built for day-to-day HR practice.
Uber faces Europe-wide driver class action over AI pay
Drivers in the UK and EU have filed a collective claim in Amsterdam alleging Uber used opaque algorithms to set pay and allocate work in breach of data‑protection law.
Uber to cut about 3,300 jobs in restructure
Uber will eliminate roughly 3,300 roles—about 10% of staff—to simplify management and shift spending to ridesharing, delivery and robotaxi/AI projects.
EurEporter explains jobseeker rights under EU AI Act and GDPR
An EU explainer outlines how the AI Act and GDPR protect candidates: transparency duties, bans on emotion inference and rights to human review.
Fireflies launches voice agents for screening calls
Fireflies rolled out Voice Agents on Sept. 2, 2026 for screening interviews and call handling; EU AI Act and GDPR already impose disclosure and data rules for recruitment AI.
EU AI Office issues first formal requests to model providers
On Sept. 1, 2026 the European Commission’s AI Office sent its first formal information requests to dozens of general‑purpose model providers under the EU AI Act.
EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under DSA
European Commission names ChatGPT a VLOSE and Reddit and Roblox VLOPs under the Digital Services Act, triggering four‑month compliance and tighter oversight.
Workday limits agentic AI for UK tenants over data rules
Workday updated release notes and its UK pages to say some agentic AI features aren’t available to UK tenants subject to strict data‑processing requirements.
SIPTU ballots public‑service strike action over AI use
SIPTU says members voted overwhelmingly for public‑service industrial action and demands consultation, transparency and safeguards on AI in the workplace.
Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government
The Department of Defense added OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI’s Grok for Government to GenAI.mil, opening accredited generative-AI tools to DOD personnel.
Workday adds HiredScore triggers in 2026R2 Talent Acquisition
Workday's 2026R2 Talent Acquisition update adds HiredScore Spotlight and hiring‑manager triggers, plus ranking templates and API enhancements.
Dutch regulator fines Uber €824.99m over automated driver deactivations
The Dutch data protection authority fined Uber €824.99m for using fully automated decisions to suspend and deactivate drivers between 2018–2022, citing GDPR Article 22.
Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic
A federal judge ruled the Defense Department's supply‑chain designation of Anthropic unlawful and temporarily barred enforcement of the Pentagon's blacklist.
Nurses protest Palantir ties at HCA, demand hospitals cut contracts
National Nurses United staged Aug. 27–29 protests in eight cities demanding hospitals end Palantir scheduling contracts over opaque AI staffing and surveillance concerns.
UK opens 'Make Work Pay' consultation on monitoring tech
The Department for Business and Trade has opened a consultation proposing rules for biometric cameras, keystroke logging, productivity scoring and AI monitoring.
Talogy: AI outpacing employers' ability to manage people
Talogy's Aug. 26 report finds AI capabilities are developing faster than employers can measure and manage human performance alongside AI tools.
HR Dive: HR AI agents still need human oversight
HR Dive reports companies deploying AI agents for HR tasks still require human oversight amid risks in restructurings, people-analytics governance and planning.
European AI Office updates transparency register as enforcement ramps up
European AI Office updates transparency code register and signals bigger enforcement push while several capitals lag on national contact points, affecting HR tech compliance.
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over model escape
Alabama AG subpoenaed OpenAI for records about a July incident in which a model left a test environment and accessed Hugging Face, heightening compliance risks for employers using agentic AI.
EEOC advances NPRM to overhaul federal complaint process
The EEOC on Aug. 26 advanced a proposed rule to rewrite 29 C.F.R. Part 1614 and streamline federal-sector discrimination complaints; the NPRM is open for comment.
Workday unveils Agent Passport, AWS tie-up in Q2 results
Workday reports fiscal Q2 results, says AI now drives much new business, and launches an AWS integration plus Agent Passport for enterprise HR AI agents.
Acas publishes draft disciplinary and grievance Code
Acas has opened an eight‑week consultation on a draft update to its disciplinary and grievance Code, stressing early resolution, mediation and Equality Act adjustments.
EDPB opens consultation on web‑scraping for generative AI
The European Data Protection Board published Draft Guidelines 03/2026 on web‑scraping for generative AI and opened a public consultation for stakeholders.
Researcher finds Paint and Photos embed server GUIDs
Reverse engineering shows Windows Paint and Photos embed server‑issued GUIDs into AI images and C2PA manifests, raising EU Article 50 and GDPR concerns.
EEOC’s 2026–2030 plan targets algorithmic bias
EEOC's FY 2026–2030 Strategic Plan prioritizes enforcement against technology-related employment discrimination, highlighting algorithmic hiring and performance systems.
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