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The Impact of Digitalisation on Individual Labour Relations: Working Time as an Outdated Concept?

Digital revolution is characterized by the widespread use of digital technologies in the various aspects of human activity, whereby it tends to profoundly transform our society in economic, social and political sense. In the recent academic literature the possible impacts of digitalization on the world of work are widely debated. The author divides the numerous implications of digitalisation on the world of work into three basic categories. The first category refers to the impact of digitalisation on labour market. The second category encompasses the effects of digitalisation on labour relations, both individual and collective. Namely, digitalisation affects labour relations in traditional businesses and industries, because it significantly changes the organization of work. On the other hand, digital technologies also played the key role in enabling emergence of the platform work as a new form of economic activity. The emergence of platform work has led to uncertainties surrounding the employment relationship of platform workers and specific challenges with regards to their working conditions. Finally, the third category includes the impact of digitalisation on the social security systems. This implies new challenges for the existing social security systems arising from the changes in the concept of work as a consequence of digitalisation. The central topic of this paper is the impact of digitalisation on individual labour relations in traditional businesses and industries. New forms of work organization which have originated as a result of digitalisation may pose new challenges to the regulation and protection of workers. Hence, it is necessary to identify the main features of the new way of work organization, as well as the main labour law issues arising therefrom. The paper is organized in four sections. After the introduction, in the second section the impact of digitalisation on individual labour relations is shortly described. The third section focuses on the specific working time issues arising in the digital era. Concluding remarks are provided in the fourth section.

digitalisation ; individual labour relations ; working time

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