The emergence of 4.0. employment contracts: on the need to redefine employment in the context of automated Labour

• Autor(a) principal: Grozdanovski, Ljupcho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/catolicalawreview.2020.9322

Through an analysis of the ratione personae and ratione ma-teriae impacts of automation on labour, this study will examine if Artificial Intelligence (AI) should benefit from a tailor-made worker status or wheth-er it should remain under the commodity category. Based on the conclu-sions drawn in this regard, the study will suggest that, in the upcoming few decades, employment contracts will remain the matter of Humans and will continue to be defined in reference to the services-subordina-tion-remuneration tryptic. While employment may not be conceptually af-fected (through the emergence of s.c. 4.0. employment contracts), labour law and policy may require a more serious update. Aspects like skill-di-versification, the non-discrimination principle in the access to certain pro-fessions and the exercise of the right to conduct business will gain more importance as AIs enter the labour market. We thus predict the emerging of a more rights and values oriented labour law, raising new defensive shields against overly ‘Orwellian’ intrusions in workers’ data, privacy and overall well-being in the workplace.