Digital Economy: Update on Workers’ Rights

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The most recent discussions about working conditions and pay for employees at the Gorillas delivery service and the debate about a works council at Bank N26 show that the issue of employee participation in the digital economy is virulent. For the SPD MP Cansel Kiziltepe, who is also the designated chairman of the working group for employee issues in the SPD, the rights of the employees must be strengthened. Kiziltepe told this newspaper: “In the course of digitization, we are experiencing new forms of work and business that are not covered by the legal regulations. We have to change that. “Should the SPD participate in government again, Kiziltepe wants a fundamentally new approach:” Employee rights, for example when founding a works council, are currently being undermined in many digital companies, as are the efforts of employees to have more co-determination to get there will be torpedoed. ”

Kiziltepe says the Works Constitution Act, which has not been dealt with in substance for 30 years, needs to be “updated”: “In many areas, the employer is just an app. It is very difficult for employees to have personal access to their employer or their colleagues. In such an environment it is hardly possible to organize. ”This also applies to the trade unions, which, however, have remained outside the transformation, especially in the service sector, in recent decades. According to Kiziltepe, this is not the fault of the trade unions, although they had direct influence on the government through the SPD and could have influenced the legislation on the digital economy. Kiziltepe: “In these cases, the unions have no direct access to employees. The employees have to organize themselves in the company. But the unions could certainly put even more public pressure on to point out exactly these problems. “

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