BREAKING: the Italian Ministry of Labour has already ruled that the collective agreement food-delivery platform work cannot be considered signed by the most representative organizations. As such it cannot derogate from the law wired.it/economia/lavor…
The Ministry says: the signatories of the agreement do not meet the tests to be the most representative social partners at the national level, as required by the law. It also notes: the minimum legal requirements to set an hourly remuneration not based on piece-rate are not met
Finally, the Ministry takes exception with the CBA establishing that the riders are freelancers. This is not up to the social partners to decide as the legal classification of work arrangements belongs to the courts
This is the official opinion of the Ministry, but it is not sure whether it is finally binding. As important as it is, the last word on this belongs to the courts as well. Certainly, such as swift answer from the Ministry shows how important the issue is for all the parties
1) The Directive will force Member States to adopt a presumption of employment for platform workers. This is less stringent than the very strong presumption the EU Parliament wanted but much more meaningful than what Member States and the Commission initially proposed.
2) The national presumption will have to be based on “facts” instead of legal criteria as in the Commission’s and Council’s texts. This is a true procedural help for platform workers claiming reclassification. Also, the Directive expressly states that: (i) the this presumption…
Quando avete tempo, possiamo anche discutere del fatto che il Garante NON ha affatto bloccato ChatGPT, né ha mai deciso che in Italia vada bloccata l’intelligenza artificiale né sistemi di LLM come ChatGPT. Discutiamo da tre giorni di una allucinazione collettiva. THREAD 👇🏼
Il Garante ha notificato a ChatGPT che 1) non ha predisposto una informativa sulla privacy; 2) non ha chiarito a che titolo tratti i dati personali degli utenti che processa; 3) non prevede meccanismi per evitare che i minori di 13 anni accedano al servizio (la stessa OpenAI…
… si è preposta questi limiti di età). Tutti questi punti non sono una trovata goliardica del Garante ma sono chiaramente richiesti dal GDPR della UE. Il Garante NON ha bloccato ChatGPT. Open AI, la società che gestisce CHAT GPT ha settimane di tempo per spiegare come intende..
THREAD on AI, ChatGPT, and the Scientific Method. 1/ We've undergone the Scientific Revolution in a (problematic) attempt to understand the world and nature, including human nature, and then to dominate it through science and technology.
2/ The ultimate (again, problematic) goal of this endeavour was to gain control over these elements, to dominate them and bend them to our will. One of the fundamental aspects of the scientific method is the experiment, as it allows for replicability. #ScientificMethod
3/ Once you identify a principle, you can repeat the experiment with the same results and then apply those results on a large scale in the real world. What puzzles me about the current movement towards AI is that we want to create increasingly independent systems
+++CHATGPT IN A COURT DECISION +++
And so it begins! I am sharing here the first (as far as i know) judgement that openly used ChatGPT to ground its reasoning. It is in Spanish. THREAD diariojudicial.com/public/documen…
The crucial part starts on p. 5, where the Court reports the answers to the legal questions they posed to ChatGPT. Then, at the end of p. 6, the Court adopts the arguments given in these answers as grounds for its decision.
Apparently, the use of ICT in judicial decisions is allowed by the law in Colombia. The Court says: "The arguments for this decision will be determined in line with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Accordingly, we entered parts of the legal questions posed...
NEW BOOK OUT! 🧵We are delighted that "A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society" is out today. Ilda Durri, Charalampos Stylogiannis, @MathiasWouters1, and I edited it. It features chapters by a wonderful, interdisciplinary group of scholars THREAD e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-res…
As editors, we wrote the intro and first chapter of the book. This is the only chapter that discusses the employment status of platform workers across the globe in the book. All the other chapters concentrate on other, new and vital issues that affect these workers worldwide👇🏼
@AudeCefaliello and @CristinaInversi analyze the OSH risks suffered by platform workers and the challenges this work and other precarious forms of work present to regulators that aim at mitigating these risks. This is a hugely understudied and crucial topic👇🏼
+++BREAKING ON PLATFORM WORK AND VULNERABLE SELF-EMPLOYED WORK+++ The EU Commission just released its Guidelines exempting solo self-employed workers, including platform workers, from EU antitrust law for the purpose of collective bargaining - THREAD competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2…
The Guidelines cover ‘solo self-employed person’, i.e. persons who are not in an employment relationship and rely primarily on their own personal labour for the provision of the services concerned
This notion corresponds to the personal work approach to competition law and collective bargaining advanced by @N_Countouris, myself and other colleagues like @IoannisLianos (based on a longstanding idea of Mark Freedland and Nicola) HOWEVER… socialeurope.eu/collective-bar…