Employment Law in the UK and EU: Technology, Human Rights and Crises

Technology and digitalisation have made their official debut in the workplace too, no earlier than in coincidence with the global health emergency. Admittedly, even before the global pandemic, the management of the algorithm had already sparked off burning questions of a legal nature: among these, the Uber’s “worker” status. However, unlike the 2008 financial crises, whose therapy lay on a revolution of the banking regulation, the recent global pandemic seems to turn its attention on employment law, the latter being a discipline which, eventually, is seemingly going to change for good. On such a background, the main aim of this work is to emphasise the demarcation line between the “ancient” labour law and the “new” techno employment law, particularly in the UK as juxtaposed against the EU.