Current issue - 2025/2.
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José María Miranda BOTO:
Editorial
Digitalization of Industrial Labour Relations (DIGILARE)
- Ageold values in a new digital world
The DIGILARE editorial presents the EU-funded DIGILARE project's analysis of how digitalisation-algorithms, AI, remote and platform work-reshapes power in workplaces and threatens classic labour-law values. It argues that information, consultation and participation rights must be adapted to ensure transparency, fairness and democratic governance of work.
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Hannah LUTZ:
The Cross-Border Extension of National Labour Representational Law
Appropriate solution for the digital future or the concept of an analogue past?
Virtual work can be organized over long distances and thus also across borders. The paper examines the impact of these modern forms of work on employees rights on information an co-determination from an Austrian perspective.
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Carla SPINELLI:
Social Dialogue and Trade Union Rights in the Digital Era
Digitalisation - through platform work, AI and telework - profoundly reshapes work organisation and fragments collective interests, making traditional trade union representation harder while exposing workers to surveillance, algorithmic bias and regulatory gaps. Robust social dialogue, strengthened information/consultation rights, adaptable trade unions and EU level minimum standards (complementing collective bargaining) are essential to protect collective rights and ensure fair, democratic governance of digital work.
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Ana GARCÍA GARCÍA:
The Dangers of Workplace Digitalisation for Collective Rights:
Beware the Siren Songs
Digitalization presents seductive "siren songs" of efficiency that often mask the erosion of collective labour rights and the intensification of employer surveillance. The challenge is not to say "no" to technology (which is not a realistic option) but rather to say "not like this" to the power that stands behind it. A framework of technological humanism must include explicit bans on technological strike-breaking, mandatory transparency of algorithmic management, and the reinforcement of trade-union tools and collective action.
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