HR Critical Guardrails - Read First

## When NEVER to Use Copilot for HR

**Copilot drafts and organizes; it never decides about people. NEVER use it for:**

- Hiring, rejection, promotion, or termination decisions
- Disciplinary outcomes or grievance determinations
- Performance ratings or calibration decisions
- Compensation, bonus, or pay-equity decisions
- Employee-relations or legal determinations (discrimination, accommodation, etc.)
- Anything that screens or ranks candidates as a decision

**Employee-data care:**
- Be mindful of confidentiality and data protection when prompting
- Avoid pasting sensitive personal or special-category data
- Follow your AI, privacy, and works-council policies

**Bias warning:** AI can reflect and amplify bias. A human must review every people-facing output for fairness.

**Golden Rule:**
> "Copilot drafts and organizes. People leaders decide — with care, fairness, and a human in the loop."