About the project
The Irel project encompasses three cases of digital transformation that show different implications for work patterns and industrial relations:
“Irel- Smarter Industrial Relations to Address New Technological Challenges in the World of Work” (March 2019 to February 2021), Co-funded by the European Commission, DG EMPL, under the Budget Heading 04.03.01.08 Improving Expertise in the Field of Industrial Relations.
It pursues three main goals: to analize the way in which industrial relations players and practices are coping with the problems that arise from the transformation of employment patterns prompted by technological innovation; to promote transnational dialogue, exchange of information and benchmarking of best practices; to put forward policy proposals aimed at providing innovative and effective solutions to the problems of collective representation and regulation of employment relations in digitized workplaces.
The “digital transformation” of production processes poses landmark challenges for the organization of the workplace and the related employment patterns. Such challenges call into question the regulatory role of industrial relations and the capacity of social partners to promote fair working conditions along with a smooth adjustment of companies to the new determinants of competitiveness.
Industry 4.0 represents a world in which virtual and physical systems of manufacturing cooperate globally with each other in a flexible way, to offer highly customized products and services, and this has a profound impact on employment relations.
Platform work is a form of employment that uses online platforms to match the supply and demand for labour. The types of work offered through platforms are ever-increasing, giving rise to significant challenges for existing regulatory frameworks.
Smart work is a new model of working adopting information technology to allow work to take place “anytime, anywhere” and to balance personal needs, space, time and responsibility, with a view to improving employee performance and job satisfaction.
News
Fourth iRel International Workshop – Smarter Industrial Relations to Address New Technological Challenges in the World of Work – Industry 4.0
22 april 2021, 3.00 pm (CET) on Zoom.
Third iRel International Workshop – From Telework to the Scattered Workplace. European Perspectives on Remote Working in a Post-Pandemic Scenario
15 March 2021, 3.00 pm (CET) on Google Meet. The recording of the meeting is available.
Italy, Order to reclassify the working position of about 60.000 riders for the four main food delivery platforms.
24 February 2021 – The Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered Foodinho srl, Glovo-Uber Eats Italy srl, Just Eat Italy srl, Deliveroo Italy srl to requalify riders who in the period from 1 January 2017 to October 2020 worked for them as hetero-organised workers pursuant to Art. 2 of Legislative Decree No. 81/2015 and to settle their social security and insurance contributions.
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ContacT us
Marco Biagi Foundation is a lead applicant of the European Project “iRel-Smarter Industrial Relations to Address New Technological Challenges in the World of Work”
Phone number: +059 205 6042
Email: irelproject@gmail.com
Address: Largo Marco Biagi, 10, 41121 Modena (Italy)