Workers have a right to know

Article 11 of Italian Law no. 132 of 23 September 2025 concerns work. Its second paragraph says that the employer or principal must inform the worker of the use of artificial intelligence, in the cases and in the manner set out in Article 1-bis of Legislative Decree no. 152 of 26 May 1997.

That article was introduced in 2022 by Legislative Decree no. 104 of 27 June 2022, which implemented the EU directive on transparent and predictable working conditions. It concerns the use of automated decision-making or monitoring systems.

Informing is not enough

So the 2025 law does not create a new duty. It explicitly links it to the latest tools. It is a useful signal: workers must know when a system helps evaluate them, assign them tasks or monitor them.

But the value of information depends on how it is given. A twenty-page annex handed over on day one may meet the duty. It does not put anyone in a position to understand.

A useful notice answers simple questions. Which system do you use? To decide what? Who checks its outputs? How can I ask for explanations or challenge it?

Four questions. If an organisation cannot answer them clearly, the problem is not the notice. It is the system.