Rimini, June 5, 2026 – The judge against the algorithm. And this time, the technology desired by the ministry was beaten by a teacher who turned to the Rimini court, after not being able to do substitute teaching for a year because the algorithm decided so.
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The court overturned the algorithm’s decisions with a ruling that Cisl hopes will set a precedent. The teacher was included in what are called Provincial Rankings for Substitute Teaching, the so-called Gps. His score made him suitable for substitute teaching in case institutions needed to replace tenured teachers.
But he was not called; on the contrary, he saw other colleagues, with lower scores than his, chosen through the algorithm to fill teaching positions in schools in the province.
Battistelli (Cisl): “Unacceptable that the algorithm tramples on workers’ rights”
A distortion, Cisl notes, that the judge deemed illegitimate. “The ruling puts in black and white what we have been denouncing for a long time – emphasizes Luca Battistelli, regional secretary of Cisl Scuola Emilia-Romagna –: it is unacceptable that an algorithm, managed without the necessary guarantees, ends up trampling on the rights of female and male workers. The ranking must remain the guiding criterion, otherwise an unjust and opaque system is created.”
Technology is welcome, but when it decides differently from what logic would dictate, then for Cisl, the limit has been crossed.
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Objections to the algorithm: years of distortions according to unions
Objections against the algorithm are not new. For years, trade unions have been denouncing the distortions that the system has produced in the selection of teachers included in the rankings.
“This is not just an individual victory – continues Battistelli – but a result that concerns all precarious school staff. It means stating clearly that those with more qualifications and more experience cannot be bypassed by those with less due to a poorly conceived automatic mechanism.”
Review of the computerized management of substitute teaching?
Now Cisl hopes that the computerized system for managing substitute teaching, which has been heavily contested over the years, will be reviewed. “Precariousness cannot become a condition of lesser protection,” concludes Battistelli. Meanwhile, the teacher has had a right recognized by the judge that technology had set aside.
What the judge recognized for the teacher
Today, the judge recognized the precarious teacher’s right to the annual substitute position unjustly denied by the algorithm, allowing him to recover the score and also be recognized for the unreceived salary differences.
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