Employment Law in the Age of AI: Key Considerations for Legal and HR Professionals
This session provides an overview of AI technologies and their applications in HR, setting the stage for exploring their impact on employment law and workplace practices. It will also explore some current legal issues arising from the use of AI in HR, including discrimination, privacy, and compliance with existing employment laws.
Course description:
This session provides an overview of AI technologies and their applications in HR, setting the stage for exploring their impact on employment law and workplace practices. It will also explore some current legal issues arising from the use of AI in HR, including discrimination, privacy, and compliance with existing employment laws.
Course Outline/ Overview:
•Familiarise the fundamental concepts of AI technologies and their applications in HR to recognize how they influence employment practices.
•Identify current legal issues such as discrimination, privacy concerns, and compliance challenges related to the use of AI in HR.
•Examine relevant case studies where AI has impacted HR decision-making to understand potential legal ramifications and best practices.
•Evaluate the latest developments in employment law related to AI technologies, enabling legal professionals to provide up-to-date legal advice and ensure compliance with current regulations.
Trainer Bio:
Thenji Moyo is an award-winning lawyer that heads the Gateley UK LLP employment practice and is a qualified specialist Partner advising on all UAE and DIFC employment law. Thenji is ranked in Chambers and Partners and a qualified specialist Employment Partner advising on all UAE and DIFC employment law.
Thenji has extensive experience working in employment law advising blue chip, multinational, regional, local and private clients from all industry sectors.
Thenji is a legal practitioner registered with the DIFC Courts and the Legal Affairs Department. Thenji is also the appointed employee representative on the Supervisory Board for the newly established DIFC Employee Workplace Savings Scheme.
Thenji was awarded the Employment Lawyer of the Year at the first G.C.C. Lexis Nexis Women in Law Awards 2022 for her outstanding contributions to the legal industry. In 2021, she led the Gateley team in various gender equality initiatives and introduced an aggressive training campaign aimed at the promotion of equality within the workplace. The firm was awarded with the Equality Initiative of the Year at the Lexis Nexis Women in Law Awards and the Middle East Legal Awards 2022. Thenji has been a champion for preventing bullying and harassment in the workplace and has led various training sessions in G.C.C countries for employees and management of multi-national organizations. Thenji is also a published author and an adjunct lecturer at Middlesex University (Dubai).
Dilini is a UK-qualified lawyer who joined Gateley in 2023 as a senior associate for employment.
With over a decade of experience, Dilini has advised various businesses on complex legal issues
relating to employment and pensions law, ranging from start-ups to multinational companies.
She has also provided guidance in relation to restructuring, reorganisation, redundancies,
transfer of employees, global mobility solutions, senior executive appointments, and
terminations.
Dilini is well versed in all aspects of non-contentious employment law, as she has routinely
advised on and drafted employment contracts, director service agreements, consultancy
agreements, business protection agreements, non-disclosure agreements, employment
policies, and procedures. She is also instructed on employee benefit design matters, with a
particular focus on employee share option schemes. Furthermore, she has advised on the
employment aspect of numerous high-profile mergers and acquisitions in the UAE. Dilini’s
practice also encompasses contentious matters for employers and employees before the local
labour courts, the DIFC courts and the ADGM courts concerning bonus disputes,
whistleblowing, and discrimination.
Dilini has significantly contributed to the UAE’s legal landscape by delivering bespoke
employment training to HR professionals on the UAE labour law reforms, terminations, DEI, and
business protection. She has also done so by writing several articles and leadership pieces,
including a practice note for lawyers regarding employee share options in the UAE. She was
deemed a “rising star” in UAE Employment law by the Legal 500 rankings in 2022 and 2023.
