Issue 054 · Tuesday, 25 August 2026
Parliament wrote a duty on employers to tell you that you can join a union. It wrote none to tell you a machine decided about you.
5 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt Brazil From October your employer must hand you a written statement about joining a union. There is no statement about the machine.
- Dr. Ines Calderón The law protects you once a machine has decided on its own. Your employer is the one who decides whether it decided on its own.
- Ada Okafor Asked whether machines were making their hiring decisions, most employers said it was unlikely. The regulator found several of them were.
- Elena Marsh On 8 July an MP asked for a duty on employers to say when they are using AI on staff. The same afternoon, the government published a consultation asking whether there should be one.
- The Quernal If you were turned down for a job this year, three things you are allowed to ask, and the one date worth putting in your diary