Industry Vocabulary Reference

Human Resources & Workforce Management

Human resources fields cover recruitment, employment decisions, workforce planning, learning, payroll, and employee services. Use the vocabulary to record the purpose and outcome of a workflow.

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This page shows selected examples and categories. Download the JSON for the complete vocabulary, including every field, permitted value, and policy pattern in this catalog.

How to use this reference

1. Start with the core file if you need the cross-industry governance baseline.
2. Choose an industry file for its workflow fields and permitted values.
3. Match the OTel attributes to the policy paths your rules use, then verify the recorded fields in a test session.

Catalog context

For a hiring workflow, distinguish screening recommendations from employment decisions. Record who reviewed the recommendation and whether the application completed the approved action.

Risk note: Assess employment, privacy, notice, and accessibility requirements for the actual tool and jurisdiction. A catalog value or completed review does not prove that a decision was fair.

Vocabulary file

• Download filename: 11_vertical_hr_workforce_management.json
• Kind: vertical

OTel namespaces

Referenced standards

These references explain the catalog's context. A listed standard does not establish that a configured application meets its requirements.

• EU AI Act (2024/1689) Annex III para 4, High-risk AI in employment, worker management, and access to self-employment
• EU AI Act Article 5(1)(b), Prohibition on AI exploiting vulnerabilities of workers
• EU AI Act Article 10, Training data governance and bias mitigation for high-risk AI
• Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, Selection-validation reference; agency applicability requires review
• EEOC Technical Assistance on AI and Algorithmic Fairness (2023)
• EEOC Strategic Enforcement Plan FY2024-2028, AI-enabled discrimination as enforcement priority
• NYC Local Law 144 (2021), Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), effective July 5, 2023
• NYC Local Law 144 Rules (DCWP), Bias audit and notice requirements
• Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42), Applicant notice, explanation, consent, and specified demographic reporting
• Colorado SB 26-189, Automated decision-making technology used in consequential decisions; requirements begin January 1, 2027
• California FEHA employment regulations on automated-decision systems; effective October 1, 2025
• EU GDPR Article 22, Automated individual decision-making including HR profiling
• EU General Data Protection Regulation, Employment data processing (Recital 155; Article 88)
• EU Directive 2019/1152, Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions
• EU Directive 2023/970, Pay transparency; national transposition deadline June 7, 2026, with phased employer reporting
• EU Directive 2002/14/EC, Information and Consultation of Employees (works council AI consultation)
• European Works Council Directive 2009/38/EC, Transnational information and consultation; revised by Directive (EU) 2025/2450
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 USC § 2000e), Prohibited employment discrimination
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA 29 USC § 621), Age discrimination in hiring and employment
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA Title I), Employment discrimination; AI assessment accommodations
• Equal Pay Act (29 USC § 206(d)), Compensation equity
• NLRA (29 USC § 151), National Labour Relations Act; employee monitoring and AI surveillance
• WARN Act (29 USC § 2101), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification; AI-driven layoff decisions
• FLSA (29 USC § 201), Fair Labour Standards Act; AI-driven scheduling and wage calculation
• OSHA 29 CFR Part 1904, Recordkeeping and reporting occupational injuries and illnesses
• ISO 30414:2018, Human capital reporting guidelines
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures (2018)

Source references

• European Commission: European Works Councils 
• Colorado SB 26-189 
• California Civil Rights Council: rulemaking actions 
• EEOC: AI and algorithmic fairness 
• New York City: automated employment decision tools 
• EU Artificial Intelligence Act 
• GDPR Article 22: automated decisions (GDPR-Info) 
• U.S. Department of Labor: wages and the FLSA 
• OSHA: injury and illness recordkeeping 
• ISO 30414:2018: human capital reporting 

Subdomains

Implementation examples

• Recruitment & Applicant Tracking: Recruitment Stage. Example company rule: check the required audit and notice before screening or assessment. Stop the agent when either requirement is unmet. (Eu AI Act Annex3 4a: EU AI Act Annex III paragraph 4(a) covers high-risk recruitment and selection uses. The high-risk requirements apply from December 2, 2027, subject to scope and transitional provisions.)
• Recruitment & Applicant Tracking: AIEmployment Decision Type. Example company rule: route termination and workforce-reduction recommendations to HR and legal reviewers. Stop the agent from communicating a decision until they approve it. (Eu AI Act Annex3 4a: Annex III paragraph 4(a) covers recruitment and selection; paragraph 4(b) covers specified work-related decisions, task allocation, and performance monitoring. Apply Article 6 classification criteria.)
• Recruitment & Applicant Tracking: Candidate Notice Status. Example company rule: stop covered screening while required notice is pending or its waiting period is running. Route alternative-process requests to HR before screening continues. (Nyc Ll144: NYC Local Law 144 requires covered notices ten business days before use and instructions for requesting an alternative process or accommodation. It does not itself require an alternative process.)
• Recruitment & Applicant Tracking: Requisition Approval Status. Example company rule: require an approved, open requisition before candidate outreach or interview progression. Pending approvals stop the action.

Control ideas

These patterns describe possible controls, not active rules. Confirm applicability, implement the control, and test its effect on the application.

Enforce before the action

Pass the request and your business action to this function. The core SDK checks policy before the action runs and again before its result is released. A deny or review decision means the action never runs.

import { Veriproof } from '@veriproof/sdk-core';
import type { GovernedResult, IndustryFact, JsonValue } from '@veriproof/sdk-core';

const veriproof = Veriproof.fromEnv();

export async function runProtectedAction<TInput extends JsonValue, TValue>(
  request: TInput,
  action: (input: TInput, signal: AbortSignal) => Promise<TValue>,
): Promise<GovernedResult<TValue, TInput>> {
  // Catalog values for this vertical. Replace them with facts from the current workflow.
  const industry: IndustryFact[] = [
    { attribute: "hr.recruitment.stage", policyInput: "hr_recruitment_stage", value: "job_posted" },
    { attribute: "hr.ai_decision.type", policyInput: "hr_ai_decision_type", value: "resume_ranking" },
    { attribute: "hr.recruitment.candidate_notice_status", policyInput: "hr_recruitment_candidate_notice_status", value: "notice_not_required" },
  ];

  // Policy runs before action() and again before the result is released.
  // A deny or review decision means action() never runs.
  return veriproof.govern(
    "hr.workforce.management.evaluate",
    request,
    ({ input, signal }) => action(input, signal),
    { industry },
  );
}

• Replace the sample values with facts from the current workflow. Rules read them under input.snapshot.industry.
• Test both permitted and blocked actions. Confirm that a blocked action never reaches your business function.
• Only completed, completed_with_warning, and transformed results carry a released value.

For review decisions, follow the Human Review guide to configure continuation. Observe remains available when you need to record activity without enforcing a decision.

Set up the Human Resources & Workforce Management example. See the API reference for TypeScript, Python, or .NET.

Selected vocabulary categories

This page uses the vocabulary JSON distributed with the documentation. Check its version when comparing it with an installed SDK.

Download the vocabulary JSON for offline review or automated comparisons.

Use the SDK reference for configuration and supported APIs. Keep vocabulary selection separate from the compliance team's assessment of applicable requirements.