22 June 2018

Date of Publication: 2018

Presentation from Parliament’s Research Unit on the envisaged effects of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution on the labour market. Addressing how other countries are preparing for 4IR, concern for
how labour matters will be navigated in South Africa and the role of Parliament in bringing about
legislation for market regulation and protection of workers, as well as introducing new forms of
social dialogue to cater for new ways of working. [View resource]

Author: Meinert M.
Date of Publication: 2018

The ‘four scenarios’ describe different, but equally plausible ‘futures’ of digitalisation in the wortd of
work. They bring to light various opportunities and challenges that in future could play more or less
important roles for codetermination actors. They offer a frame of reference for assessing current
developments and existing strategies for action and for opening up more creative scope for
successful codetermination. [View resource]

Author: Carney M.
Date of Publication: 2018

Speech given by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England [View resource]

Author: Lawrence R.
Date of Publication: 2018

The report summarises presentations by Prof Lawrence on the evolution of manufacturing activities
globally, the extent to which digitisation and robotisation are undermining the prospects of
employment growth in this sector, and what South Africa could and should do to expand
manufacturing employment. [View resource]

Date of Publication: 2018

This is a first in what the author hopes will be a series of practical articles about the nut and bolts of
setting up a worker cooperative. In this first article, the author is going to take a look at an important
but poorly-understood subject: minimum profit plow-back rules. [View resource]

Author: Ballim F. and Breckenridge K.
Date of Publication: 2018

The importance of collections running into hundreds of millions of carefully assembled examples for
training machine learning algorithms raises the obvious question of whether the relative absence of
data places the African continent beyond the operations of artificial intelligence. [View resource]

Author: De Vos M.
Date of Publication: 2018

The paper explores possible avenues for a transformation of labour law corresponding to the
substantial transformation referred to as ‘Work 4.0’. It begins by identifying the underlying
transformational trends (Section 1-2) to argue five core priorities for the future of labour law:
activation 2.0, transversal career management, sustained labour quality focus, continuous and
integrated talent development, and active support of economic participation (Section 3). Adopting a
long term view, it describes the potential dismantling of the employment contract to develop a
future of labour law as a ‘law on persons’ beyond employment status, with a corresponding need to
reconfigure collective consultation and bargaining (Section 4). It concludes by stressing that the
future of labour law is a choice (Section 5). [View resource]

Author: Sharma Y.
Date of Publication: 2018.

Universities will be key in bridging new emerging ‘digital divides’ within countries and globally in the
era of innovation driven by artificial intelligence and other new technologies, a conference organised
by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) heard. [View resource]

Author: Smith C
Date of Publication: 2018

The article reflects an employer’s perspective on protections against exploitation of vulnerable
workers provided for in amendments to employment legislation. [View resource]