EU HR Compliance Guides
GDPR requests, pay transparency, the AI Act and working-time records, written for companies without a legal department.
7 guides
Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
A 2019 CJEU ruling made daily working-time records an employer duty across the EU. What a record must contain, who is exempt, and why a spreadsheet fails.
Handling Employee GDPR Requests: Data Export & Erasure Rules
A GDPR data request lands in HR: what the export must cover, what erasure really deletes, the retention carve-outs, and a calm six-step checklist.
EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
EU pay transparency decoded for small companies: the duties that hit every employer now, the reporting that phases in by size, and what to collect today.
EU AI Act in HR: What You Can & Cannot Automate
Emotion recognition at work is banned, high-risk HR duties slipped to December 2027, and everyday drafting is fine. The EU AI Act tiers, sorted for HR.
How to Roll Out Company Policies & Track Employee Sign-Off
What a solid acknowledgment record contains, what it is not legally, and how to roll out a policy without a spreadsheet and three weeks of chasing.
Burnout Tracking Without the Big Brother
Monitoring software measures motion, not health. How to spot a struggling team with anonymous health checks and trends instead of keystroke logging.
Your AI Summary Shouldn't Require a Copy of Everything
Most enterprise AI integrations quietly centralize your data to work. The Model Context Protocol offers a different deal, and a much smaller blast radius.