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"Uber drivers are getting minimum-wage protection for the very first time By Alison GriswoldDecember 4, 2018 New York City voted Tuesday (Dec. 4) to enact a first-of-its-kind pay floor for ride-hail drivers, who as independent contractors are not protected by federal or state minimum-wage laws. The pay standard approved by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission aims to raise drivers' take-home pay to $17.22 an hour, an increase of 44%. The new pay floor, which takes effect in 30 days, could raise annual wages for 70,000 professional drivers in the city by as much as $9,600. The taxi commission's actions come amid a devastating string of suicides by professional drivers in New York City. Eight drivers have died by suicide since late 2017: Roy Kim, a yellow cab owner and driver; Fausto Luna, an Uber driver; Abdul Saleh, a yellow cab lease driver; Yu Mein Kenny Chow, a yellow cab owner and driver; Nicanor Ochisor, a yellow taxi owner and driver; Danilo Corporan Castillo, a Bronx livery driver; Alfredo Perez, a Bronx livery driver; and Douglas Schifter, a black-car driver. A common theme in each case was economic despair and a sense of betrayal by politicians and regulators who allowed the yellow-cab industry to be steamrolled by companies like Uber and Lyft. Castillo wrote his suicide note on the back of a taxi commission summons. Schifter shot himself in front of City Hall. "This first-time regulation to form a floor for app driver earnings and give a modest first raise is a long time in the making," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the pro-driver New York Taxi Workers Alliance said in a statement. "It's the first real attempt anywhere to stop app driver pay cuts, which is an Uber and Lyft business practice at the heart of poverty wages." The pay standard approved by the commission makes use of a clever formula devised by economists James Parrott and Michael Reich for a July report on driver earnings commissioned by New York City. T

"The results indicate that digital intensive industries especially reward workers having relatively higher levels of self-organisation and advanced numeracy skills. Moreover, for workers in digital intensive industries, bundles of skills are particularly important: workers endowed with a high level of numeracy skills receive an additional wage premium, if they also show high levels of self-organisation or managing and communication skills."

"Our view is that the automotive industry will see more disruption in the next ten years than it has seen in the last 50 years. This disruption will be driven by four factors that we call the ACES. It stands for autonomous, connectivity, electrification, and ridesharing. Autonomous really is, along a full range, what we call from level one to level five, with level five being a driverless car that can operate in any part of the world."

"New York City should do for its local cab industry the same thing successful industries do for themselves: standardize how information is formatted and exchanged between systems. This makes it possible for information from one app, like Uber, to be read, understood and interacted with by another app, like Lyft or Google Maps."

"The TWC is a network of progressive and left-wing workers throughout the tech industry who are trying to organize and bring the labor movement into Silicon Valley, particularly parts of it that have not been grounds for labor organizing thus far. You can consider us to be a kind of workers center, that facilitates the building of new communities and new networks that are separate and in opposition to the business interests of the tech industry."

Le salon industries du futur aura lieu à Mulhouse en octobre 2018.

"We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing workers, and the equilibrium impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. "

La France et l'Allemagne vont investir 12 millions d'euros sur 5 ans dans l'académie franco-allemande pour l'industrie du futur, afin de promouvoir la recherche et l'innovation.

Interview de Tom Slee, auteur de "What's yours is mine : against the sharing economy". "As the money in the Sharing Economy has grown, so has the driving ideology behind it, and now it's become basically a deregulation movement, with companies like Uber and Airbnb building business models that demand deregulation of their industries in cities around the world."

Atelier de l'ETUI sur la digitalisation dans l'industrie les 23 et 24 février 2017

Rapport du European Tech and Industry Employers sur la digitalisation et le monde du travail.

this article concentrates on "Arbeit 2020" as a sort of pilot project for the German metalworkers' organisation in the face of digital transformation. The main goal of "Arbeit 2020" is to enable works councils' members to bargain over digitalisation in workplaces.

"this industry has, until recently, operated largely informally, with jobs secured by word-of-mouth. That's changing, as employers are increasingly turning to Uber-like services to find nannies, housecleaners and other care workers. These new gig economy companies, while making it easier for some people to find short-term work, have created hardships for others, and may leave many experienced care workers behind."

"The authors conclude that i) no overarching framework exists for governing or facilitating social dialogue between the parties involved in the platform economy, and ii) even if the existing framework is applied to parties in the platform economy, it offers a poor fit due to differences between platform workers and employees, and platforms and employers."

"Platform-to-business trading practices About Online platforms Policies News Events Funding Consultations Reports and studies Laws Related topics Audiovisual & Media Services Cybersecurity Digitising European Industry Next Generation Internet PAGE CONTENTS Useful links The European Commission aims at promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services. Platforms offer unparalleled efficiencies in terms of access to cross-border consumer markets and have become the go-to interface for millions of successful firms. While the gateway position of online platforms enables them to organise ecosystems of millions of users, it also opens a scope for certain unilateral trading practices that are harmful, and against which no effective redress is available for the businesses using these platforms. Both direct harms to businesses, as well as the mere scope for such harm, undermine the innovation potential of platforms, which is exacerbated by emerging legal fragmentation. The Commission therefore announced in its mid-term review of the Digital Single Market Strategy that it would deliver concrete actions on unfair contracts and trading practices in platform-to-business relations. This commitment to safeguard a fair, predictable, sustainable and trusted business environment in the online economy was confirmed in President Juncker's 2017 State of the Union address. Delivering on this commitment, the Commission proposed on 26 April 2018 an EU Regulation on fairness and transparency together with the creation of an Observatory on the online platform economy. The proposal was underpinned by an impact Assessment that incorporates evidence and stakeholders' views collected during a two-year fact-finding exercise."

Deux rapports d'experts sur l'usage des technologies au travail et leurs conséquences en termes de santé et de sécurité. Une première sur l'utilisation des imprimantes 3D et ses conséquences sur l'organisation du travail ; l'autre sur les technologies utilisées pour surveiller les travailleurs.

"The latest issue of HesaMag, the ETUI periodical dealing with occupational safety and health, investigates the impact of new technologies on working conditions and workers' health and safety in industrial sectors, as well as in intellectual professions. "