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Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Labour Law and Labour Market: Can AI be a Boss?

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Author: Gábor Mélypataki
Date of Publication: 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed has transformed social realities. Much of its effects is not yet clear. The author argues that post-apocalyptic visions are unlikely to be realised and that there is no need fear the revolution of machines. However, this does not mean that using AI will not have negative effects or dangers. The traditional employment relationship is likely to remain but in a changed form, with AI partially or completely replacing the function of the employer or the employee. The article analyses questions arising from both situations; for example, whether the employer’s decision-making power can be delegated to AI and the legal consequences of AI’s mistakes. [View Resource]

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Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy

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Authors: Sandeep Vaheesan and Nathan Schneider
Date of Publication: 2019

After decades of neglect, antitrust is once again a topic of debate. Proponents of reviving antitrust have called for abandoning the narrow consumer welfare model and embracing broader objectives. One essential is the ownership structure of the firm itself. The dominant model of investor-owned business exacerbates the effects of market power. In contrast, cooperative ownership models can mitigate the effects of monopoly and oligopoly and advance the interests of consumers, workers, small business owners, and citizens. The promotion of competition among large firms should be paired with support for democratic cooperation within firms.

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Solving the ‘Gig-saw’? Collective Rights and Platform Work

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Authors: Michael Doherty and Valentina Franca
Date of Publication: 25 December 2019

There are few topics in contemporary labour law scholarship that have generated more literature than work in the so-called ‘platform economy’. To date, much work has focussed on the question of defining the personal scope of the employment relationship and on the problems of using existing classifications of employment status in the context of work organised via platforms. This article seeks to address the much less-discussed issue of how collective bargaining may function in the ‘platform economy’, and the role of collective labour law actors, most notably the social partners. The article argues that, rather than focussing on individual employment status and litigation, it is by developing a regulatory framework supportive of, and that involves key stakeholders in, strong sectoral collective bargaining that work in the ‘platform economy’ can be adequately regulated to the benefit of workers, business and the State. [View Resource]

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Employee Data Protection in the Transnational Company

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Author: Achim Seifert
Date of Publication: 2018

The chapter focuses on EU law relating to the cross-border processing of employee personal data
within transnational companies or groups of companies. Regulation (EU) 679/2016 of April 2016
(General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]) only provides a general framework for cross-border
data transfers. The chapter argues that the provisions of the GDPR are not sufficiently adapted to
the employment context and need to be supplemented by more specific rules on employee data
protection. [View resource]

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A Review of the Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Employment

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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]

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Codetermination 2035 – Four Scenarios: Focus on Digitalisation

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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]

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the African continent

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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]

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