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Publication Fundamental Labour Rights, Platform Work and Human-Rights Protection of Non-Standard Workers(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2018-02-28) De Stefano, Valerio; Aloisi, Antonio; Bellace, Janice R.; ter Haar, Beryl; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The spread of non-standard forms of employment in industrialised and developing countries over the last decades has prompted an extensive debate on how to reshape labour regulation to accommodate these new formats. However, limited attention has been devoted to the access of non-standard workers to fundamental labour rights. This chapter aims at reorienting the debate towards these neglected dimensions of labour regulation. In particular, it focuses on the risks affecting work in the so-called ‘gig’ or ‘platform’ economy, since the relative novelty of these forms of work may obscure the difficulties these workers face in enjoying fundamental labour rights. Platform workers, together with casual workers and some self-employed workers not only are more exposed to violations of fundamental rights but are also often excluded from the legal scope of application of these rights, which are sometimes reserved to workers in an employment relationship. This is particularly true for collective labour rights, as self-employed workers, including sham self-employed persons and platform workers, who are often deprived of full access to the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. This happens, for instance, when their collective activities are found to be in breach of antitrust regulation. This chapter maintains that preventing self-employed workers who do not own a genuine and significant business organisation from bargaining collectively is at odds with the recognition of the right to collective bargaining as a human and a fundamental right. Consequently, it argues that only self-employed individuals who do not provide ‘labour’ but instead provide services using an independent, genuine and significant business organisation that they own and manage can have their right to bargain collectively restricted.Publication Il tuo capo è un algoritmo : contro il lavoro disumano(Editori Laterza, 2020) De Stefano, Valerio; Aloisi, Antonio; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Automazione, algoritmi, piattaforme, smart working: il mondo del lavoro sta vivendo una vera e propria rivoluzione. La paura è che crolli il numero degli occupati e che il lavoro umano venga riconosciuto e apprezzato sempre meno. Si teme la capacità di controllo dei software di intelligenza artificiale. Ma non esistono tecnologie buone e tecnologie cattive; esistono usi distorti e usi consapevoli delle invenzioni e delle innovazioni. La tecnologia cambia rapidamente e incide in profondità in tutti gli ambiti, con esiti spesso preoccupanti. È quello che accade al mondo del lavoro, tra trasformazione digitale, utilizzo dei robot e dell'intelligenza artificiale e diffusione delle piattaforme. Che cosa sta accadendo alle professioni che non sono state spazzate via dalla tecnologia? Come ci si confronta con strumenti di sorveglianza dei lavoratori sempre più pervasivi? Quante possibilità ci sono che il modello della gig-economy si affermi come nuovo paradigma produttivo? Che cosa potranno fare le parti sociali e le forze politiche per mettere in campo protezioni efficaci? La qualità del lavoro presente e futuro dipende da come esso è concepito, contrattato e organizzato. La trasformazione digitale può essere infatti un alleato indispensabile, dalla fabbrica alla scrivania, dal magazzino all'ufficio, ma va messa alla prova sul terreno della convenienza sociale e politica e non solo su quello della convenienza economica. Questo libro è uno strumento prezioso per orientarsi con coordinate precise sui nuovi scenari, sui rischi che corriamo e sulle scelte necessarie per affrontare il futuro.Publication Máquinas, algoritmos, plataformas digitales Facultades ampliadas y libertades virtuales. Notas sobre el futuro (del derecho) del trabajo(Tirant lo Blanch, 2020-05) Aloisi, Antonio; De Stefano, Valerio; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Seguramente puede decirse que las evoluciones actuales no presentan caracteres de linealidad. Esto, combinado con la naturaleza intrínsecamente cambiante de algunos fenómenos y las sinergias prometedoras entre los diferentes vectores de cambio, hace que todas las predicciones sean frágiles y, al mismo tiempo, nos desanima a mirar al pasado en busca de respuestas cíclicas. Por lo tanto, es conveniente volver a calibrar el enfoque de la discusión sobre el futuro del trabajo, tratando de descifrar las consecuencias de la automatización, la digitalización y de la plataformalización desde un punto de vista cualitativo. Las metamorfosis más profundas, como explica Eurofound, requieren a menudo una adecuación de las prácticas empresariales, de las infraestructuras sociales e incluso del marco institucional. Para hacerlo, es necesario abandonar cualquier visión ideológica de la promesa tecnológica, ya sea ésta apologética o apocalíptica. Sobre todo, es necesario realizar un esfuerzo analítico para evaluar secularmente los elementos de continuidad y discontinuidad, antes de emprender acciones judiciales y regulatorias. Las máquinas, los algoritmos y las plataformas constituyen un objetivo móvil; por lo tanto, es necesario que el legislador, los jueces, los emprendedores y las organizaciones sindicales valoren las virtudes de resiliencia del marco normativo laboral y traten de tejer una red de coherencia entre las opciones de las empresas y el marco normativo regulatorio.Publication Your Boss Is an Algorithm Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour(Bloomsbury, 2022-07-14) Aloisi, Antonio; De Stefano, Valerio; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well as the regulatory options available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital advancements. From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming consequences for everyone's lives, reshaping the labour market and straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement. Can flexibility and protection be reconciled so that legal frameworks uphold innovation? How can we address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring? How likely is it that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm across sectors? And what can social partners and political players do to adopt effective regulation? Technology is never neutral. It can and must be governed, to ensure that progress favours the many. Digital transformation can be an essential ally, from the warehouse to the office, but it must be tested in terms of social and political sustainability, not only through the lenses of economic convenience. Your Boss Is an Algorithm offers a guide to explore these new scenarios, their promises, and perils.