Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work

Practical action

Add an AI Act notice step to the HR technology change process and consult the works council where national law requires it.

Who does it apply to?

Employers deploying high-risk AI in recruitment, task allocation, performance monitoring or other employment uses listed in Annex III.

Actors

Deployer / user organisationPublic authority / government body

Sectors

Cross-sector / all sectorsEmployment and HR

Use cases

AI in hiring and employment

Applies from: 2 December 2027

Which controls meet this duty?

Satisfies: the control, operated properly, does the work the duty asks for. Supports: it contributes but the duty needs more. Each control page lists every other duty it serves, so work done once can be counted once.

• satisfiesProcessProduct owner · at launch and on material change
  AI interaction and use disclosure notices

  Serves 18 recorded duties · evidence: AI interaction or use notice, Notice catalogue, Notice wording approval

  Workforce-facing notice before go-live.

• supportsProcessAI system owner · once per ai system
  AI impact and fundamental-rights impact assessment

  Serves 11 recorded duties · evidence: AI impact assessment, Impact assessment approval, Impact assessment procedure and template

  Identifies the affected worker groups to notify.

Templates that cover this duty

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• EU AI Act Role and Risk Classifier

  Checklist · XLSX · v4

• AI Agent Registry and Permission Matrix

  Register · XLSX and DOCX · v6

• EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit

  Kit · DOCX and XLSX · v44

• ISO/IEC 42001 Gap Assessment and Statement of Applicability

  Assessment · XLSX · v3

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What evidence would a reviewer expect?

Framework mappings

Original editorial crosswalks. They cite clause numbers only and reproduce no standard text; confidence reflects how direct the mapping is.

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Frequently asked questions

Cite this record

AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work (EU AI Act)” [AIPT-OBL-0034, verified 26 September 2026]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0034 (accessed 8 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Permanent id AIPT-OBL-0034: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.

Cite the official text alongside it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, Official Journal of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj.

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Change history

Similar obligations in other instruments

• Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way — EU AI Act, European Union
• Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must explain individual decisions taken with high-risk AI on request — EU AI Act, European Union
• Frontier developers must publish a transparency report before deploying a new frontier model — California SB 53, California (United States)
• Provide deployers with clear instructions for use — EU AI Act, European Union