Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law

A Global Overview
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36532-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Reihe: Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law

This volume provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the organization of work. As algorithmic management is proliferating across industries, market players have started utilizing automated decision-making tools throughout the entire employment lifecycle, from hiring to contract termination. The digitalization process has also paved the way to the creation of new professions as well as of unprecedented virtual spaces of work, which can potentially become a tool for the training and qualification of workers who are already employed (even in traditional jobs: e.g., drivers and janitors). Furthermore, as the widespread debate on the so-called Predictive Justice showcases, AI might be used in the adjudication of labour disputes by either Courts or Arbitrators. The book initially maps, from a theoretical point of view, the core issues emerging from the use of AI in the organization of work. The second part of the volume displays how the same issues are addressed by the policy makers and/or by the social partners in a selected pool of countries, both from the EU context and from the non-EU context. Especially – but not exclusively – for the non-EU Countries, the Authors investigate the role of other pieces of legislation, such as the rules in matter of privacy and/or the antidiscrimination policies, in the protection of workers from the risks associated with AI. The core message of the book is that AI is a driver of both risks and opportunities for work; hence, a moderate and careful approach by the policy makers and by the social partners is due in order to strike a fair balance between the promotion of the technological progress and the protection of workers’ rights.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biasi, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht Telekommunikationsrecht, IT-Recht, Internetrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: AI and Labour Law: Mapping the Core Issues 1. AI at work, algorithmic bosses, and the ambivalence of automation 2. Sharing responsibilities along the AI lifecycle: Towards a responsible labour AI regulatory regime 3. The bright side of AI for work: From (unbrindled) risk to (regulated) opportunity 4. Artificial Intelligence and health and safety at work: The regulation of emotion recognition technologies 5. The rise of algorithmic surveillance: Legal and ethical implications for the future of work 6. Artificial Intelligence and equality at work 7. Artificial Intelligence and remote work 8. Robotization and humanization 9. AI and digital labour platforms 10. AI, work, and virtual worlds 11. A collective rights framework for regulating AI at work 12. Artificial Intelligence in European social security administration: Regulatory frameworks and implications 13. Compliance and enforcement of workers' rights in the age of AI 14. Predictive justice and threats to human rights in labour law disputes Part II: Country Analysis 15. Governing workplace AI: Normative tensions between the AI Act and labour law 16. Artificial Intelligence and labour law in Spain 17. Artificial Intelligence and labour law in France 18. Labour law and AI in Italy: Between old regulations and new rules 19. The right to know algorithms: Trade unions and Poland's first AI workplace regulation 20. The arbitrariness of the AI-boss: A Republican critique of UK labour law 21. The divided states of work law: Regulating US workplaces in the age of AI 22. Labour law and Artificial Intelligence in Chile 23. Regulation, Artificial Intelligence and the world of work: analysing Brazilian initiatives 24. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Australian labour law 25. AI and labour law regulation in Israel 26. The price for ignoring AI regulation: Russian experience in labour law matters 27. Artificial Intelligence and labor law in China: Scenarios, rules, and prospects 28. Artificial Intelligence and labour law in Japan: Challenges and prospects

Über Autor(innen)

Marco Biasi is an Associate Professor of Labour Law at the Law Department “Ce-sare Beccaria” of the University of Milan, Italy, where he is the head of the courses of “Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law” and of “Comparative Labour Law”. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Law School of Stanford University in 2022 and at the ILR School of Cornell University in 2015. During his PhD years at Bocconi Uni-versity in Milan, he was a Visiting PhD Candidate at University of Jena in 2012. Professor Biasi has authored three books, edited nine volumes and published sev-eral articles both in Italian and in English. His main research fields are: labour law and technology; labour law and artificial intelligence; remedies and sanctions in employment law; dismissal protection policies; employee involvement in the man-agement of companies; work regulation in the sports industry.