Sheffield Employment and HR Forum: Dealing with AI in the workplace: legal considerations and best practice

The Sheffield Employment team are delighted to invite you to their next HR workshop, taking place on Thursday 25th June 2026.

In this session, Tom Draper, Adele Coupland and Alipanah Akram will be providing guidance on how to manage the use of AI in the workplace. This will include answering the following questions:

• We are planning to use AI to speed up our recruitment process. Is there anything we should be careful of?
• We have received a lengthy grievance that is obviously drafted by AI. How should we respond?
• Can we justify making redundancies based on efficiencies gained from AI?
• We have an Employment Tribunal claim and have been ordered to disclose relevant documents. We used AI to guide us on the dismissal process. Do we have to disclose the AI guidance?
• Someone told me that we cannot use AI for HR purposes because of data protection law. Is this true?
• An employee has submitted a data subject access request for any information on AI platforms that mentions their name. Do we have to share this information?

As always, the session is free to attend. Breakfast will be served from 08:30, ready for a prompt 09:00 start. The workshop will finish around 10:30.

We look forward to seeing you on 25 June!

The Employment team hold in-person workshops on a quarterly basis and further details will follow. The future dates for your 2026 diary are:

• Tuesday, 15 September: Unfair dismissal in focus: understanding the law and preparing for the upcoming changes
• Thursday, 10 December: Freeths festive 2026 employment law roundup