GIUV2020-473
Multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of digital disconnection within the framework of labour relations. The technological transformations that the current labour market is undergoing are causing significant changes in the sphere of workers and in business management. Without a doubt, this is a challenge for the agents involved in the workplace (workers, employers, Governments, trade unions and business associations) to strengthen the protective spirit of labour regulations and guarantee basic labour rights such as rest, health and safety at work, privacy, work-life balance, secrecy of communications and data protection. In this sense, the research group analyses the worker¿s right to digital disconnection, as well as its possible impact on people management and business competitiveness. All this always pointing out that it is a labour right whose effectiveness ultimately comes both from a mechanism to enhance the freedom and self-determination of the worker¿s plan, as well as a guarantee of effective, free and equal business competition within the framework of a social market economy. In this context, the research group clarifies a basic and fundamental labour right today, but...Multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of digital disconnection within the framework of labour relations. The technological transformations that the current labour market is undergoing are causing significant changes in the sphere of workers and in business management. Without a doubt, this is a challenge for the agents involved in the workplace (workers, employers, Governments, trade unions and business associations) to strengthen the protective spirit of labour regulations and guarantee basic labour rights such as rest, health and safety at work, privacy, work-life balance, secrecy of communications and data protection. In this sense, the research group analyses the worker¿s right to digital disconnection, as well as its possible impact on people management and business competitiveness. All this always pointing out that it is a labour right whose effectiveness ultimately comes both from a mechanism to enhance the freedom and self-determination of the worker¿s plan, as well as a guarantee of effective, free and equal business competition within the framework of a social market economy. In this context, the research group clarifies a basic and fundamental labour right today, but with many edges that need to be polished. To this end, in line with its multidisciplinary nature, it deals with the legal assets protected in labour law: to a greater or lesser extent and directly or indirectly, health (art. 15 EC); freedom (art. 1.1 EC) - including freedom of enterprise and productivity (art. 38 EC) -; dignity and free development of personality (art. 10 EC); equality (arts. 1.1; and 9.2 EC); confidentiality and privacy (art. 18.1, 3 and 4 EC); honour (art. 18.1 and 4 EC); and family (39.1 EC). Succinctly, the group intends to deal with the exercise of the right, its legal-practical implications in labour relations (with special emphasis on telework), its current state in the world (with international studies of the law in other countries), its relationship with the prevention of occupational risks (computer fatigue and hyperconnectivity), as well as with gender perspective, diversity, confidentiality and privacy, work-life balance, video-surveillance and corporate control (the need for all kinds of digital software means that the control of workers is growing considerably) and the technological side of it, among other aspects: the BYOD ("bring your own device") study, internal protocols on the use of digital devices and work time management software available to private and public companies.
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- Analisis juridico-normativo del impacto de la desconexion digital en la esfera personal del trabajador.
- Investigacion aplicada, divulgacion, formacion y sensibilidad sobre la digitalizacion en el ambito juridico-laboral, estudio desde la prevencion de riesgos laborales, la perspectiva de genero, la intimidad, la proteccion de datos, la organizacion del tiempo de trabajo, la conciliacion de la vida laboral, familiar y/o personal y desde el control y vigilancia empresarial, entre otros objetivos.
- Digital disconnection.Protection of the worker's health and personal sphere outside the workplace.
- Workday record.Requirement to keep working time records, socio-labour implications, productivity, accidents, working time, prevention of occupational risks, flexibility, teleworking, etc.
- Workday record.The obligation to register work, socio-labour implications, productivity, accidents, working time, occupational risk prevention, flexibility, teleworking, etc.
- Intimacy and privacy.Measures aimed at strengthening worker privacy in the face of audiovisual or geolocation systems at work, guaranteeing the right to digital disconnection outside working hours, both for salaried workers (including also those in managerial positions - referred to by legislators as middle managers and different leadership positions) and for public employees - the self-employed must demand digital disconnection.
- Family and personal conciliation.Reconciliation of family and personal life: digital disconnection is closely linked to flexibility in working time. Therefore, this reconciliation must be a measure to ensure the right to technological disconnection.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANIEL TOSCANI GIMENEZ | Director | Universitat de València | |
| Research team | |||
| JUAN ALBERTO TORMOS PEREZ | Member | Universitat de València | |
| IGNASI BELTRAN DE HEREDIA RUIZ | Collaborator | Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | tenured university professor |
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- Labour and Social Security Law
- Tiempo de trabajo, prevención de riesgos laborales, registro, jornada, fichaje, descansos, flexibilidad laboral, intimidad, conciliación, fundamentables, derecho, tecnología, transformación, digital
- Intimidad, privacidad, género, prevención de riesgos laborales, laboral, intimidad, conciliación, fundamentales, derecho, tecnología, transformación, digital
- Tiempo de trabajo, prevención de riesgos laborales, género, paridad, inclusión, flexibilidad laboral, intimidad, conciliación, fundamentales, derecho, tecnología, transformación, digital
- desconexión, salud, riesgo psicosocial, prevención, protección, datos, tiempo, trabajo
