From the course: Introduction to Employee Relations
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The future of employee relations
From the course: Introduction to Employee Relations
The future of employee relations
- With so many new ways to define work and the person doing the work is not just an employee, what can HR professionals expect from the so-called future of work? We live with and work with a range of fast-changing applications of digital technology in our world. With this comes new challenges to protecting people's rights as workers, agents and employees. Recent court rulings across the world are beginning to clarify a new wave of ways of working. For example, in the U.K., drivers have successfully challenged Uber to become classed as workers and are entitled to minimum wage and holiday provision under U.K. employment law. Platform or gig working such as Uber drivers, GitHub coders, Fiverr designers have come under scrutiny by lawyers, union officials and workers alike. In some cases, employees movements are tracked by GPS devices and even implanted chips. These devices remove the need for security passes to buildings…
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