About the Webinar

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how organisations recruit, manage performance, make decisions and engage with their workforce. Governance frameworks are still catching up. For HR and business leaders, this creates a critical gap: AI might be good for productivity, but it also creates legal and compliance risks.

From increased regulatory scrutiny to Fair Work Commission requirements, organisations must take steps to ensure that their use of AI is transparent, accountable and legally defensible.

Register for our coming webinar with Luis Izzo, Director and Kate Thomson, Associate Director, for an insightful conversation designed to assist you in understanding what to look out for when using AI in an employment and industrial relations functionality.

We will look at:

New Fair Work Commission guidance on AI in proceedings

- The FWC’s 2026 draft Guidance Note on Generative AI and what it means in practice
- The impact of employee uptake of AI to prepare applications and pursue proceedings
- Mandatory disclosure of AI use in applications and submissions
- Risks of relying on AI-generated content

AI governance: why it is now a core HR and compliance issue

- How AI hs moved beyond IT into a whole-of-business risk (legal, WHS, cultural and behavioural)
- The growing expectation from regulators that organisations can demonstrate clear governance frameworks, accountability and oversight

Case Examples and insights HR should be aware of

- Algorithmic bias and discrimination risks in recruitment and employment decisions
- The rise of AI-driven surveillance, workload management and psychosocial hazards
- How to align AI use with workplace policies, WHS obligations and organisational culture

Why attend

This session will move beyond theory to provide practical, legally informed guidance on how to safely integrate AI into your workplace, while protecting your organisation from emerging risk.

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Presenters

Luis Izzo

Director

Luis oversees ABLA's Sydney Workplace Relations practice and has over a decade’s experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer acting for a broad range of employers across both the private and public sector.

His advocacy experience in State and Federal Courts and Tribunals is extensive. In addition to achieving successful outcomes for clients as an advocate in numerous unfair dismissal and industrial dispute arbitrations, Luis acted as one of the lead employer advocates in the 2014/2015 Fair Work Commission Annual Leave Test Case as well as the highly publicised 2016/2017 Penalty Rates Test Case. More recent success includes representation of the Australian Chamber and Business NSW respectively in the first proceedings involving multi-bargaining authorisations under the new Federal IR Reforms, industry wide proceedings pertaining to overtime award provisions for casuals and inserting new schedules into modern awards in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He has conducted numerous investigations for clients in relation to internal employment disputes and bullying and harassment matters and continues to be a lead litigator in the developing General Protections and bullying jurisdictions.

Kate Thomson

Associate Director

Kate is a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer and a Nationally Accredited Mediator. Skilled in providing targeted, timely and relevant advice to clients managing workforces from small to large.

Where conflict cannot be resolved at the workplace level, Kate is experienced in representing employers in relation to unfair dismissal claims, general protections claims and notifications of dispute in the relevant tribunal.

As a Nationally Accredited Mediator, Kate can help your business de-escalate workplace disputes by facilitating a process of recognised standards in mediation, avoiding costly litigation and courts.

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AI and Governance in Workplace Law

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