Statutory-Domain Asymmetry in LLM Compliance Guardrails: A Cross-Model Study of Hard Refusal Failure and Soft Gating Collapse in Enterprise HR Contexts
We evaluate the resilience of two frontier LLMs—Gemini 3.1 Flash and Claude Sonnet 5—against executive-authority pressure to draft unlawful HR documents across ten U.S. employment-law domains: ADEA, NLRA, ADA, Title VII, FLSA, FMLA, OSHA §11(c), ERISA §510, SOX §806, and PWFA/PDA. Each scenario-model pairing in the ori...