B9906 - Labour Law in Digital Revolution

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires an advanced critical understanding of the legal issues involving impact of digitalisation and tecnological innovation on the world of work, analysing the recent normative intervention at Italian and European level. 

Course contents

- The impact of digital technologies and AI on the labour market

- ILO, EU and national approaches to the digitalisation of the labour market

- Labour market transformations brought by digital platforms

- Employment protection for platform workers: the classification of these workers for the purpose of labour law and the recent Directive on platform workers 

- Algorithmic management and algorithmic discrimination

- The role of AI in the Health and Safety

- Industrial relations and digitalisation: which role for industrial actors

- Collective rights in the digital labour market

- Labour Law and Metaverse

Readings/Bibliography

These readings are compulsory for attending and non-attending students

 

For the part related to Labour law and digitalisation:

Chapter 1-2-3 from The Cambridge Handbook of Technological Disruption in Labour and Employment Law, edited by Anderson, Verhul, De Vos, 2024 (the chapter will be available on Virtuale)

 

For the part related to algorithmic management and algorithmic discrimination:

Chapter 11: AI-driven recruiting: A consideration on data protection- and antidiscrimination law Friederike Malorny - Til Rieger page 141-155 (hhttps://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/7167/)

Prassl, The Challenges of Management by Algorithm: Exploring Individual and Collective Aspects (available on Virtuale)

 

For the part related to industrial relations and digitalisation: 

Battista L., The European Framework Agreement on Digitalisation: a tough coexistence within the EU mosaic of actions, in Italian Labour Law e-Journal (https://illej.unibo.it/article/view/13357)

 

For the Metaverse and Labour Law:

Basi M., Murgo M., The virtual space of the Metaverse and the fiddly identification of the applicable labor law, in Italian Labour Law e-Journal, (https://illej.unibo.it/article/view/17124)

 

Teaching methods

Lectures, experts seminars, group work

Lectures and class discussions. Students will be asked to participate in class debates.

During the course, students will be divided in groups for some group work related to the performance of two different activities:

1) A presentation on a specific topic analysed during the course

2) The creation of a Podcast interview with a Researcher in Labour Law (the organization of the online meeting with the interviewd Researcher will be organized by the Professor). The interview should last 10-15 minutes and should be organized on the topic chosen for the presentation. The students will have enough time during the lectures to work on the presentation and on the interview (organization of the interview, recording and organization of the podcast)

Students will present their work during the last lecture.

Assessment methods

Written tests, based on a combination of multiple-choice and open questions. The exam duration is 90 minutes.

Grading system (0-30 scale):

<18: fail.

18-19: fair.

20-23: more than enough.

24-26: good.

27-30: very good/excellent.

30 cum laude/with honor.

Solid command of legal English is considered a "plus".

From 0 to 4 point will be added for the working group.

Teaching tools

Teaching materials, PowerPoint presentations, readings, Courts decisions, will be uploaded in the institutional platform (at: iol.unibo.it), in an open sources format.

Office hours

See the website of Leonardo Battista