AI and HR (Walking Points)

AI and HR (Walking Points)

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  • Part 2: AI and the People You Already Employ

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    Part 2 of AI and HR covers the AI tools that evaluate, schedule and monitor current staff, the EU ban on emotion recognition at work, two enforcement cases (Amazon's warehouse scanners and a delivery platform's algorithm) and what employers must tell employees and their representatives. Researched and hosted by Mia and Adam, two AI voices.

    In this episode

    • What these tools are, and why employees are a different case from candidates
    • The EU rulebook in one pass, reminded briefly
    • The ban: Emotion recognition at work
    • Case one: Amazon's warehouse scanners and the French regulator
    • Case two: The delivery platform's algorithm and the Italian regulator
    • The Platform Work Directive: The first algorithmic-management law in the EU
    • What employees, works councils and unions are saying
    • What an employer has to tell staff
    • What this changes for an HR team now
      • Figures
      • €32 million: CNIL fine on Amazon France Logistique, December 2023 source
      • €15 million: Fine after the Conseil d'État decision of 23 December 2025 source
      • 1.25 seconds: Gap between two scans that triggered the contested Amazon indicator source
      • 31 days: How long Amazon kept every productivity indicator, found unjustified source
      • €5 million: Italian Garante fine on Foodinho (Glovo) source
      • 2 December 2026: Transposition deadline of the Platform Work Directive source

        • Sources: Deep dive

        • European Parliament committee recommends Commission to propose EU directive on algorithmic management (Inside Privacy · 2025-07-25)
          Defines algorithmic management and sets out the Parliament's draft proposals and the Commission's March 2025 study.
        • Annex III High-risk AI: Obligations, Scope and Deadline (2 December 2027) (regulation-ai.eu)
          Shows that Annex III point 4 covers promotion, termination, task allocation and monitoring of workers, with the postponed deadline.
        • The Prohibition of AI Emotion Recognition Technologies in the Workplace under the AI Act (Wolters Kluwer · 2025-04-14)
          Explains the scope, definition, exclusions and exceptions of the emotion recognition ban.
        • Understanding the EU AI Act's prohibited practices: key workplace and advertising (Lewis Silkin · 2025-02-17)
          Gives the Commission guidelines' workplace examples of banned and permitted emotion recognition.
        • EU Commission Publishes Guidelines on the Prohibited AI Practices under the AI Act (Orrick · 2025-04-01)
          Confirms the narrow medical and safety exception and that burnout detection stays prohibited.
        • France Fines Amazon 32m Euros Over 'Excessive' Worker Surveillance (Silicon UK · 2024-01-24)
          Reports the CNIL fine and the scanner indicators it objected to.
        • France slashes Amazon's GDPR fine from EUR 32M to EUR 15M over warehouse monitoring (PPC Land · 2025-12-24)
          Details which indicators the Conseil d'État upheld as lawful and which violations stood.
        • Italian Data Protection Watchdog Fines Foodinho Over Gig Algorithms (PYMNTS)
          Reports the 5 million euro fine for opaque order and shift allocation and unchecked performance assessment.
        • From gig to guarantee: how the EU is transforming platform work (CMS)
          Summarises the Platform Work Directive's algorithmic management rules and the 2 December 2026 deadline.
        • The EU needs a Dedicated Directive on Algorithmic Management and AI at work (ETUC)
          The European trade union view that the AI Act is not enough and a dedicated directive is needed.
          Why this story: the union view
        • Germany: Does the Works Council Have a Say When Employees Use ChatGPT? No, According to the Labor Court Hamburg (Littler · 2024-03-01)
          Explains the Hamburg ruling and the limits of works council co-determination over AI use.
          Why this story: the works council view
        • Employers and AI: informing workers under Article 26(7) of the AI Act (Garrigues)
          Describes the duty to inform workers and their representatives before a high-risk system is used at work.

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        • Part 1: AI in Hiring: What the Tools Do and What the Rules Say

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          AI in hiring, from CV screening and AI interviews to candidates who apply with AI themselves, then what the evidence says about quality and bias, and the EU AI Act and GDPR rules that apply. Part 1 of 3 on AI and HR.

          In this episode

          • What AI in hiring actually is
          • What the evidence says about quality
          • What the evidence says about bias
          • Candidates now apply with AI too
          • The rule that makes hiring tools high-risk: The EU AI Act
          • The rule on decisions made solely by a machine: GDPR Article 22
          • What an HR team can do with this
            • Figures
            • 85.1 %: Share of comparisons in which white-associated names were favoured by the tested embedding models source
            • 11.1 %: Share of comparisons in which female-associated names were favoured source
            • 70,884: Applications in the voice-AI interview field experiment source
            • 12 %: Increase in job-offer likelihood for applicants interviewed by an AI voice agent source
            • 78 %: Share of applicants who preferred the AI interviewer source
            • 1.1 billion: Applications Workday said were rejected using its software since September 2020 source
            • 2 December 2027: New date from which the AI Act's high-risk rules for stand-alone Annex III systems apply source

              • Sources: Deep dive

              • Amazon's Experimental Hiring Tool Allegedly Displayed Gender Bias in Candidate Rankings (AI Incident Database)
                Documents the Amazon recruiting tool that learned to downgrade CVs mentioning women's activities.
              • Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants (AI Incident Database)
                Records HireVue dropping facial-expression analysis in January 2021.
              • Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews (Brian Jabarian, University of Chicago Booth · 2025-09-15)
                The 70,000-applicant field experiment comparing AI voice interviewers with human recruiters.
              • UW research finds significant racial, gender and intersectional bias in LLM rankings of resumes (University of Washington · 2024-10-31)
                The name-swap audit of three embedding models on 554 CVs and 571 job descriptions.
              • California Federal Court Grants In Part And Denies In Part Workday's Motion To Dismiss In Mobley v. Workday (Duane Morris Class Action Defense · 2026-06-24)
                Where the Workday case stands and the reasoning that vendors can act as employers' agents.
              • Enforcement of Local Law 144: Automated Employment Decision Tools (Office of the New York State Comptroller · 2025-12-02)
                The audit finding that New York City's enforcement of its AI hiring law was ineffective.
              • AI Is Blurring Reality for Recruiters and Applicants (HR Today)
                Survey-based picture of candidates and recruiters both using AI.
              • Annex III High-risk AI: Obligations, Scope and Deadline (2 December 2027) (regulation-ai.eu)
                Annex III point 4 on employment and the new high-risk deadline.
              • EU AI Act Omnibus Agreement: Postponed High-Risk Deadlines and Other Key Changes (Gibson Dunn)
                What moved to December 2027 and what stayed, including AI literacy, prohibitions and Article 50.
              • CJEU Delivers Important Decision on Automated Decision-making Under the GDPR (Matheson · 2023-12-07)
                Explains the SCHUFA judgment (C-634/21) and why a score a third party relies on is itself an automated decision.

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              • Trailer: AI and HR

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                AI now reads the CVs, scores the interviews and watches how the work gets done, and HR is the department that has to answer for it. Three parts on AI in hiring, AI and the people you already employ, and what changes in HR's own work, with the rules that apply at each step. Researched and hosted by Mia and Adam, two AI voices, for anyone in HR who wants to know what has actually changed.

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              AI now reads the CVs, scores the interviews and watches how the work gets done, and HR is the department that has to answer for it. Three parts on AI in hiring, AI and the people you already employ,…