In their 09 November joint position on "The impact of digitalisation on the world of work in the MET industries", the European social partners in the metal, engineering, and technology-based sector (Ceemet {European Tech & Industry Employers} IndustriAll Europe {trade unions}) identify four areas in which social dialogue is necessary to ensure that technological change benefits both employers and workers. The areas are, work organisation, skills, health and safety at work, and data protection. Furthermore, given the diversity of situations and the pick up in the pace of digital transformation answers to these questions must be increasingly ‘tailor-made’, and require strong actors to whom governments allow adequate autonomy.
Amid the accelerating process of digital transformation, the existence of strong, mandated and representative social partners could facilitate the search for solutions to all the challenges posed by the development of new technologies “as they are best placed to deal with the new challenges and bargain on new issues that emerge as a consequence of the new digital normal”, articulated the joint position that European social partners in the metal, engineering, and technology-based sector adopted
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