Sean will be joining the ‘Restructuring by algorithm: Legal risks in the AI era’ panel at IEL’s European Employment Summit on Wednesday 16 September. Sean will be sitting on the panel alongside Bill Smith, Senior Counsel, EMEA Employment and Compliance at Tanium, Naveen Fosker, Head of Employee Relations and Employment Counsel, EMEA at Macquarie Group , Pilar Menor, Partner at DLA Piper and Sebastian Ritz, Partner at Clifford Chance moderated by James Pike, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs.
The panel will be discussing with AI tools become better at assessing performance and automating increasingly complex tasks, European employers should beware the legal boundaries of automated decision-making in reduction-in-force exercises. Following the recent passage of the EU’s AI Act and existing provisions of the GDPR, this session will explore the growing legal risks associated with AI-assisted layoffs and restructuring exercises, examine what employers can and cannot lawfully automate, consider the level of human oversight needed to defend using this new technology, and discuss how the use of generative AI in employment law advice may jeopardize confidentiality and legal privilege protections.
Further details on the summit and the programme can be found here.
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