Sub-function
Employment Legal
Owns employment matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 5 human gates.
Estate rating
BB
65 / 100
The lowest ceiling in the entire estate alongside Litigation. Employment law is jurisdiction-specific and personally consequential; agents prepare, qualified counsel always decides.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
10,567
Timetable vs actual
18.5h → 18.1h
Cost / unit
$22
was $43
Run-rate saving
$11.7M
annualized at this volume
The 8 agents running this sub-function
Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.
Employment Legal Orchestrator
Owns the employment legal lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Employment when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
ER Case Advisory Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of employment legal inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Employment when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Works Council Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of employment legal inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Employment when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Jurisdiction Rules Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in employment legal. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Employment Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in employment legal. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Termination Risk Agent
Executes the employment legal step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Employment when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Settlement Drafting Agent
Executes the employment legal step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Employment when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Employment Legal Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for employment legal. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A1 · escalates to Escalates when a ratified position is still running against a break condition it flagged.
Estate rating breakdown
Seven control dimensions. Judgment readiness runs against autonomy on purpose.
People
What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.
Redeployed into control design and independent testing.
Lines running in this sub-function
Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.
Strategy positions this sub-function holds
An agent that only executes is a robot. These are the calls it made, the argument against each one, and what would prove it wrong.
Collective Consultation
Supersededv4Is the current cost per employment matter defensible against external comparators once inference spend is counted in full?
Hold the ceiling at A1 for employment legal. The lowest ceiling in the entire estate alongside Litigation. Employment law is jurisdiction-specific and personally consequential; agents prepare, qualified counsel always decides. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
78%
The challenge — Employment Legal Challenger Agent
Employment Legal Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 2 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 14 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per employment matter stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $22k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $247k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1563k to build controls | Override rate is 8 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $790k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Policy register
The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.
| Ref | Rule | Scope | Owner agent | Approved by | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG8-POL-200 | Employment Legal Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the employment matter sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. Outside it, the unit holds at a gate with a named approver and a running clock. binds 4 agents · US · Canada | envelope | Jurisdiction Rules Agent | Associate General Counsel, Employment | v3.5 | Active |
| LG8-POL-201 | Employment Legal Evidence Standard Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. An action with no evidence record is treated as a control failure, not a fast decision. binds 4 agents · US · Canada | evidence | Jurisdiction Rules Agent | Associate General Counsel, Employment | v5.3 | Active |