Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Write a Grievance Letter

Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Write a Grievance Letter

This webpage outlines the reasons why you should NOT use AI to generate your grievance letter.

Reason 1:

  • You will not be the first employee to have submitted a grievance letter using AI to your employer.
  • Grievance letters using AI are fairly easy to detect.
  • There are many free AI detectors online, which can be used by your employer’s HR Department to quickly establish whether your grievance letter has been AI-generated.
  • These AI detectors are 99% accurate in picking up AI generated grievance letters.
  • Consequentially, the first thing the HR Department will do upon receiving your grievance letter is to establish whether or not you have used AI to create your grievance letter.
  • As Employment Consultants, my wife Amy & I do NOT use any AI in drafting our client’s letters.

Reason 2:

  • Legal firms are now advising employers to beef up their Data Protection Policy.
  • Putting personal sensitive data into a third-party AI platform regarding your employer, your manager, or workplace colleagues will be a breach of The Data Protection Act.
  • This will likely lead to disciplinary action being taken against you.
  • Entering ‘personal sensitive data’ into AI platforms about your workplace or workplace colleagues is likely to be deemed a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence.
  • The persons named in your grievance letter have a ‘Right to Privacy’ under Article 8 of The Human Rights Act 1998. Infringing their ‘Right to Privacy’ could lead to civil proceedings being brought against you, or naming you as an additional named respondent.
  • Chances are your employer will already have included a procedure within its IT Policy / Disciplinary Policy, which warns employees not to put ‘personal sensitive data’ into third party AI platforms.
  • If you breach that policy you could be subjected to a disciplinary investigation.

Reason 3:

  • As a ‘Data Controller’ your employer could be held vicariously liable if you, (the aggrieved employee), imputes personal sensitive data about workplace colleagues or your employer into third-party AI platforms. Put shortly, you are exposing your employer to a potential risk of litigation, perhaps even criminal prosecution.
  • Thus, using an AI platform to write your grievance letter could lead to difficult questions during the grievance meeting. For example, when attending the grievance meeting to address your particular grievances, the HR Department would be within their right to question you regarding what information you imputed into a third-party AI platform to create your grievance letter.
  • If you have less than two years’ service, you could be dismissed for ‘SOSR’ if you have breached GDPR.

Reason 4:

  • Employment Tribunals are receiving an uptick in AI generated grievance letters, which are frowned upon.
  • Many solicitors and barristers are now holding seminars for HR personnel to ambush employees who use AI generated grievance letters during the grievance meeting.
  • Notwithstanding, even if you use AI to cite case law within your grievance letter, how are you going to be able to explain how that case law is relevant to your particular circumstances when attending the grievance meeting?
  • For example, look at the advice given by this law firm to HR representatives when receiving an AI generated grievance letter:
  • An employee who relies heavily on AI may struggle to explain or defend their written position at an internal hearing or in the Tribunal (since AI is not an eligible companion in a formal hearing). Employers should therefore use in-person meetings to test the employee’s position. Inconsistencies between written and oral submissions are almost inevitable – and can be highly persuasive when assessing credibility, investigating complaints, managing disciplinary or grievance hearings, or defending Tribunal claims.”

  • Thus, using AI to create your grievance letter diminishes your credibility.
  • Most HR officers have some legal training and will pick your AI generated grievance letter apart at the grievance meeting.
  • We can draft you a custom grievance letter specific to your personal circumstances.
  • We can explain how that the law pertains to you and your particular circumstances, so that you can confidently argue your case at the grievance meeting. Put shortly, you need to be able to back up what you have written within your grievance letter. You need to be argue your case. We can assist you in doing just that!
  • We empower aggrieved employees to fight their corner.
  • As employment consultants, my wife Amy & I have 26 years combined experience helping people like you draft their grievance letter to their employer. Please visit our testimonials page.
  • Amy & I created two web sites formalgrievance.com and www.letterofgrievance.com after taking our own employers to the Employment Tribunal.
  • We only charge £35 for an initial telephone consultation up to one hour.
  • During the telephone consultation, we can assist you in identifying the relevant issues you need to complain about within your grievance letter.
  • Unlike AI, we can support you throughout the grievance process to ensure you obviate the common mistakes, which we often see employees’ make.
  • Amy & I are NOT solicitors but have a very good understanding of employment law. However, we cannot give you legal advice.

Conclusions:

  • Reach out to Amy & I. Call us on 07775943414 (9-5 UK time).
  • Amy and I work seven days a week because we know your employment problems don’t just end on a Friday afternoon. Alternatively, email at – myrightsuk@protonmail.com
  • Over the past 15 years we have helped thousands of clients, whether grievance, disciplinary, sickness, occupational health, performance, capability, suspension, discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing, we are here to help you.

Below is a list of employment matters, which we commonly assist clients with:

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Reach out to Sam & Amy at: myrightsuk@protonmail.com or call during working hours 9-5 on 07775943414.

We charge £35 for an initial telephone consultation up to one hour, and £50 an hour thereafter.