Labour Law and the Gig Economy: Challenges Posed by the Digitalisation of Labour Processes

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This international book analyses the impact of digitisation in labour markets, on labour relationships and also on labour processes. The rapid progress of modern disruptive technologies and AIs and their multiple applications to each phase of the labour production system, are changing the production rules on a global scale with significant impacts in every aspect of work. As new technologies transform work patterns and change the type of jobs available - destroying some while creating others - and even the nature of the tasks performed, numerous legal problems arise which are challenging to legislators and legal scholars who need to find appropriate solutions to them. Considering the labour law issues which have been created by technological developments and currently affect the work of millions worldwide, this book highlights the full scope of these issues, suggesting solutions to emerging problems and ways to mitigate the risks brought about through technological advancement. Approaching the present debate with perspectives on legal problems with expertise from a wide range of different countries, this book presents informed and scholarly studies which answer the challenges that new technologies present in labour markets, private lives and labour processes. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Foreword by Professor The Lord Norton of Louth, University of Hull/House of Lords A reflection on the challenges posed by digitalisation of labour markets PART I: The impact of new technologies in the labour market 1. The Taylor Review 2017 – A critical appreciation on a selection of its legal content 2. The 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on the individual employment relationship: general considerations and the regulatory context in Russia 3. Digitalisation vis-à-vis the Indian labour market: pros and cons 4. The impact of new technologies in the current labour market of selected Arab states 5. Impacts of social networks in the employment environment – from the traditional subjects to the particular case of employment non-compete clauses 6. Rebalancing worker rights and property rights in digitalised work PART II: The impact of new technologies in the employees’ private life 7. Technological innovation and its impact on the employment contract: special reference to the video surveillance and the intervention of private detectives 8. New technologies and the employee’s right to privacy 9. Work-life balance and Industry 4.0 in the legal framework of the European Union 10. Digital disconnection as a limit to corporate control of working time 11. The right to disconnect from the workplace: strengths and weaknesses of the French legal framework PART III: The impact of new technologies on the labour process 12. The digital evidence in the labour process and the fundamental rights of the employee 13. The probative value and effectiveness of the evidence obtained through email and messaging in the control of the workplace activity Index