Valerio De Stefano

Valerio De Stefano is a law professor at Osgoode Hall School, York University, Toronto.

Valerio De Stefano

Generative AI needs more than a light touch

Valerio De Stefano 25th April 2023

Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.

Making labour law fit for all those who labour

Valerio De Stefano 17th January 2023

EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.

Working from a distance: remote or removed?

Valerio De Stefano 16th June 2022

Remote work will outlast the pandemic. But workers must be inoculated against the risks.

The Metaverse is a labour issue

Valerio De Stefano 1st February 2022

The Metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies.

European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work

Valerio De Stefano 9th December 2021

The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front of the platform companies.

Artificial intelligence and workers’ rights

Valerio De Stefano 8th November 2021

A draft EU regulation on artificial intelligence risks exclusion of the social partners and lack of compliance with data-protection requirements.

Who will be covered by an EU instrument on platform work?

Valerio De Stefano 21st October 2021

A broad definition of the ‘worker’ will be essential to avoid platform companies sustaining false self-employment claims.

The future of remote work

The 12 chapters collected in this volume provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the impact and the future trajectories of remote work, from the nexus between the location from where work is performed and how it is performed to how remote locations may affect the way work is managed and organised, as well as the applicability of existing legislation. Additional questions concern remote work’s environmental and social impact and the rapidly changing nature of the relationship between work and life.

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Eurofound Talks: does Europe have the skills it needs for a changing economy?

In this episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound’s research manager, Tina Weber, its senior research manager, Gijs van Houten, and Giovanni Russo, senior expert at CEDEFOP (The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training), about Europe’s skills challenges and what can be done to help workers and businesses adapt to future skills demands.

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The summer issue of the Progressive Post magazine by FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to the importance of biodiversity, not only as a good in itself but also for the very existence of humankind. We need a paradigm change in the mostly utilitarian relation humans have with nature.

In this issue, we also look at the hazards of unregulated artificial intelligence, explore the shortcomings of the EU's approach to migration and asylum management, and analyse the social downside of the EU's current ethnically-focused Roma policy.

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2022 / 2023

With real wages falling by 4 per cent in 2022, workers in the European Union suffered an unprecedented loss in purchasing power. The reason for this was the rapid increase in consumer prices, behind which nominal wage growth fell significantly. Meanwhile, inflation is no longer driven by energy import prices, but by domestic factors. The increased profit margins of companies are a major reason for persistent inflation. In this difficult environment, trade unions are faced with the challenge of securing real wages—and companies have the responsibility of making their contribution to returning to the path of political stability by reducing excess profits.

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