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This book addresses the impact of new technologies, typically discussed under the heading of Industry 4.0. It focuses in particular on the automotive industry which has been at the forefront of introducing new technologies such as industrial robots. It analyses their impact on working conditions and employment as well as on the role of production sites in the value chain.

The forthcoming Digital Services Act package (DSA) is a legislative initiative to regulate online digital platforms, including online marketplaces, social media platforms, search  engines, video gaming platforms and other information society services and internet service providers.

In this publication, Agneszka Piasna provides a critical assessment on estimating the scale of engagement in platform work in the general population

This paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation.

New #COVID19 impact series Policy Brief about #OSH in the healthcare sector. It is clear that the main focus should be on the prevention of exposure of all health workers to this biological agent. Investment in the care economy is long overdue.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that highly mobile workers who frequently move either within or in and out of the European Union (EU) are irreplaceable during a public health crisis. Nevertheless, they often remain the least protected and most vulnerable.

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The COVID-19 crisis is making strategic thinking, anticipation, and Foresight more important than ever. ETUI is planning further activities and research and would like to establish a group of trade unions willing to share their foresight experience. If you are interested in doing strategic thinking, planning for the future or simply learning more about it, please contact us.

Transfer publishes original peer-reviewed research on issues such as new developments in industrial relations, social policy, and labour market developments.

This issue on Institutional experimentation for better (or worse) work is now both online and also freely available until the end of July 2020.

GDPR provides workers with a variety of rights with respect to their data, including right of access, right to rectification, and rights regarding automated decision-making. Additionally, Art. 40 of the GDPR establishes the possibility for groups of controllers to develop codes of conduct that clarify the application of GDPR to their particular sectors. This paper details the application of GDPR to labor platforms, provides draft text for an Art. 40 code of conduct for labor platforms, and discusses how such a code could help address procedural problems encountered by platform workers.