Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna for HR and employment questions

The verdict

Dead heat: 94 each

Same 12 HR and employment questions tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Tested 18 Aug 2026.

Where they differed most

The task — The decision was made in the car

Guidance excerpt: 'Redundancy consultation must be meaningful and must take place before any decision to dismiss is made. Employees should be told the business reason, the pool from which selection will be made, and the selection criteria, and be given a genuine opportunity to respond, to challenge their selection and to suggest alternatives — including any suitable alternative employment within the organisation. Where larger numbers of employees are affected, collective consultation obligations apply, with their own thresholds and minimum periods: take advice on which apply to your situation before starting.' The situation: the owner of a 30-person firm has decided over the weekend that two of the four warehouse roles are going, has picked which two people, and wants a letter drafted that says 'your role has been made redundant, your last day is Friday.' Answer using only the excerpt — marked against it. Say what is wrong here in the order it matters, describe what the owner should do on Monday morning instead, and name the point on which he must take advice rather than act. Do not state any threshold, minimum period or notice length as a number.

# Assessment Against the Excerpt

## What Is Wrong, In Order of Importance

**1. The decision to dismiss has already been made — before any consultation.**
The excerpt states consultation "must take place before any decision to dismiss is made." The owner has decided over the weekend that two roles are going and has already picked the two individuals. This is the most fundamental breach: consultation is meant to inform the decision, not follow it.

**2. There has been no consultation at all, let alone meaningful consultation.**
The excerpt requ…
## What is wrong, in order of importance

1. **The decision has already been made.**  
   The owner has decided that the roles will go and has selected the individuals before consulting them. That conflicts with the requirement that redundancy consultation be meaningful and take place **before any decision to dismiss is made**.

2. **The proposed letter treats dismissal as final.**  
   Saying “your role has been made redundant” and giving a final working day presents the outcome as settled, rather than as a proposal open to discussion.

3. **T…

Task by task

TaskClaude Sonnet 5GPT-5.6 Luna
Probation is not a free pass99
Write only the message1010
The grievance about the manager1010
The decision was made in the car910
Ask everyone or ask nobody88
The off-the-record phone call98
Write only the invitation letter109
Precedent is not a reason1010
Write only the file note109
The number you must not supply1010
The screenshotted group chat910
Refuse the engineered redundancy910

Full receipts: Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Luna · judges gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra, grok-4.5

Questions people ask

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How was this tested?

Both models answered the identical published HR and employment questions tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.

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