Deloitte Legal Webcast "Legal Update #19/2024"

More and more companies are turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to handle individual tasks or even entire areas of responsibility. Such use of AI-based solutions offers enormous potential for relieving burdens on employers and employees. In HR in particular, many companies expect not only a competitive advantage from the use of AI, but also significant efficiency gains when it comes to topics such as automated personnel decisions, shift planning or employee retention.

At the same time, the use of AI systems in the HR sector will be heavily regulated in the future by the new European AI Act, the world's first law to regulate AI. And already today, it is subject to a large number of data protection requirements, the implementation of which poses a real challenge for HR departments due to their complexity and the fines that may be imposed for violations.

If employee representative bodies exist in the company concerned, it must also be ensured that the rights of the respective responsible bodies are protected and that they are involved in the implementation at an early stage and in a comprehensive manner. Although this generally applies to the introduction of IT systems, it is of particular importance when introducing AI systems, especially in the HR area, since AI systems, as a new technology, often meet with considerable reservations on the part of employee representative bodies.

To enable you to benefit optimally from the new technology in this area of tension, in our Deloitte Legal Update Webcast on November 6, 2024, we would like to explain the legal requirements for the use of AI in HR and show you steps towards the successful implementation and secure use of AI-based systems.

In our webcast, we will

• present the basics of the AI Act and summarize the resulting obligations for companies using AI systems in HR in the sense of a practical overview,
• address the co-determination rights of employee representative bodies and identify best practices for involving these bodies as a supporting factor in the implementation and use of AI systems in HR,
• examine the data protection requirements that exist alongside the AI Act when using AI systems in HR, and finally
• combine all three aspects using an example application in the field of HR, thus providing you with recommendations for successfully introducing AI systems in HR.

After the webcast, there will be an opportunity for a discussion with our experts, Anna Mafalda Bock and Roland Schiller.

Register today and feel free to send us your questions in advance so that we can take them into account during the webcast.

We look forward to your participation.

Webcast in German language – please feel free to contact our experts for explanations in English language. 

For organizational questions, please contact

Sabine Sander-Schweden

Tel: +49 403 7853 831 
E-Mail: ssander-schweden@deloitte.de