Navigating the impact of AI systems in the workplace: strengths and loopholes of the EU AI Act from a labour perspective

“The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace presents both opportunities and risks. It may improve productivity and working conditions, but if misapplied or opaquely used, may exacerbate …

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BARGAINING OVER WORKERS’ DATA RIGHTS: How Unions and Works Councils Can Use Collective Bargaining to Specify Workplace Data Protection Norms

“Workplace compliance with existing data protection law appears poor. A variety of reasons explain poor compliance, including a lack of legal clarity. Therefore, in order to boost workplace data protection …

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Improving Workplace Data Protection Compliance

Achieving Workplace GDPR Compliance, Clarifying National Workplace Data Protection Rules, and Enhancing Worker Data Protection through Social Dialogue This paper explores what social partners, governments and civil society organisations can …

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Care platforms: Impacts and challenges from a trade union perspective

“Increasing demand for long-term care (LTC) is a critical issue for the European Union (EU). According to the European Care Strategy, currently around 6 million people work in LTC in …

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Leveraging Data Protection Law for Protecting Workers’ Fundamental Right to Health and Safety in the Workplace: the Amazon Case

The American company Amazon has made headlines several times for monitoring its workers in warehouses across Europe and beyond.1 What is new is that a national data protection authority has recently …

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Tribunal de Uruguay reconoce la laboralidad en Uber

Importante fallo del Tribunal de Apelaciones del Trabajo de Uruguay reconoce que los conductores de Uber son trabajadores dependientes. La defensa del trabajador corrió a cargo del abogado Federico Rosenbaun. …

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India’s Gig Workers Remain Undocumented, Unprotected

There are only estimates of India’s gig workforce, and this lack of data is one of the reasons why gig workers are largely bereft of social security in a little-regulated …

Algorithmic Management and a New Generation of Rights at Work

Technology is once again transforming the world of work. The introduction of new technologies in the workplace has long been a site of tension and contestation between workers and employers, …

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Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs

As policymakers seek solutions to the current and future impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on workers across the country, workers themselves are using their union bargaining power to negotiate contract …

Unions seek privacy probes over Amazon’s work surveillance systems

Trade unions from 11 different European countries have written to data protection authorities across the bloc asking them to investigate Amazon’s data surveillance practices, according to a letter seen by …

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