Today, on 8 April, the high-level expert group on the impact of digital transformation on EU labour markets handed over its report to Marianne Thyssen, the commissioner in charge of employment, social affairs, skills and labour mobility, and Mariya Gabriel, commissioner for digital economy and society. The report contains a list of 10 recommendations, including a new social contract that would guarantee access to social protection for all workers, including independent workers, and which would ensure a redistribution of the wealth created by personal data, as well as personal learning accounts for developing digital skills.
Diagnosis. In the view of the experts, innovation and digital transformation, which involve the automation of certain tasks, do not always entail job destruction. They put forward different studies that show that technological change is already partially taken into account by workers and that their added value has shifted to other tasks. Instead, they believe macroeconomic trends are more responsible for job losses.
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