Value-Based Reasoning Scenario in Employee Hiring and Onboarding Using Answer Set Programming

Privacy is one of the values that can be considered in value-based reasoning, mainly to avoid disclosing personal information and prevent, among others, age or gender discrimination. We propose a scenario of practical legal and ethical reasoning based on values that protect against the infringement of labour laws, social conventions, and moral norms in personnel selection and onboarding. It is envisaged as a mix of ethical and legal reasoner. The ethical reasoner focuses on two central human values: trustworthiness and privacy. This paper introduces a Legal and ethical reasoner based on Answer Set Programming (ASP) that enables explainable and trustworthy outcomes in recruiting processes whilst safeguarding users’ privacy and disclosing avoidance of protected attributes (gender, religion, pregnancy status, etc.).