AI and employment issues

About this event

Delivered in partnership with the Equality Commission this event is focused on AI and it’s impact on employment issues.

This event will cover:

What is artificial intelligence?

• How is it used in the recruitment and management of staff
• What are the main risks of AI, in terms of bias and discrimination
• What should employers do to manage these risks.

Participants should leave with information regarding navigating the world of Ai in the context of HR expectations. They will know what is coming up the pipeline and what is already being used at the minute to enhance ways of working by embracing Ai. The speaker will provide case studies on this topic and smart ways of working to embrace Ai as opposed to ignoring it.

Speaker:

Paul Oakes

Paul Oakes works as a manager of the Employer Advisory Services Team at the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. This team, amongst other tasks, develops, delivers and evaluates all employer training, across all areas of equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Our more popular training sessions in 2025 focus on equality and artificial intelligence, conscious, subconscious and unconscious bias, menopause and menstrual health and equal pay and pay transparency.

Paul previously worked with Counteract, the trade union anti-intimidation project which worked on the ground with employers to resolve workplace conflict, principally around flags and emblems. This involved working in other jurisdictions experiencing ethnic and geographic conflict.

Paul has worked in a voluntary capacity with the trade union movement and has developed guidance and training on reasonable adjustments, Section 75 and workplace culture audits.

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