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Why we shouldn’t talk about the gig economy
When we say “the gig economy” we are implicitly saying that another economy exists that is somehow different from the gig one. This division is false. It is leading to a fragmentation of workers’ rights and regulatory responses that risk locking this division firmly in place at the detriment of the rights of all workers.
Rethinking Digital Regulation
What three overarching principles could change the regulation of digital systems so fundamental rights are truly protected in digitalised societies and labour markets?
HK: Teknologisk naivitet er ikke vejen frem - vi skal tale om overvågning
Debatindlæg om overvågning på arbejdspladsen af HK Forbundsformand Anja C Jensen og Dr Christina Colclough
Er Danmarks velfærdsstat ved at blive et overvågnings-mareridt (Danish)
Er digitalisering af den offentlige sektor i Danmark uproblematisk, lovlig og etisk? Meget tyder på, at den ikke er.
The Competence Wheel
Based on a municipality's wish to deploy digital technologies responsibly and knowledgably, the Why Not Lab has created the Competence Wheel - a 5 step journey to ensure fairness, transparency, empowerment and ownership over the digital technologies deployed.
Ekspertvurdering af KL’s digitaliseringspolitik 2022: Der skal mere til (Danish) (Copy)
Kommunernes Landsforening (KL) har udgivet deres Digitaliseringspolitik 2022. Den er et skridt på vejen, men den er simpelthen ikke nytænkende eller dybdetænkende nok
We Don't Know, What We Don't Know
Reflections on 2022: Unless workers and their unions capacity build to understand how digital technologies work, and what causes the harms and otherwise negative impacts on workers, they will forever be one step behind. They simply must know, what they need to know, to collectively reshape the digitalisation of work and workers.
Addressing the G7 - workers' rights are human rights
The Why Not Lab was invited to the G7 Labour dialogues to discuss digitalisation of work and workers with the German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Hubertus Heil. See what we discussed in this post.