Technology and digital policy
Technology is rapidly transforming the world of work and impacting our lives. While technology has the potential to benefit workers, it poses a number of risks and issues that require urgent attention from policymakers.
TUAC engages with a range of OECD committees and working parties to ensure that OECD policy analysis and recommendations properly reflect and address the risks to workers arising from technology and promote the policy and regulatory frameworks needed to ensure a just and inclusive transition.
TUAC’s work on technology and digital policy is led by Sarah Jameson. For more information, please contact at jameson@tuac.org.
Workers in the On-location Platform Economy – Global Unions’ Policy Demands
On-location platform workers are treated abysmally as app-based employers use underhanded definitions and loopholes in the law to duck their responsibilities. The platform economy is a challenge to the working conditions and labour rights of all workers. A new paper with a set of demands from ...
Download (140.33 KB)The limits of data rights for the workplace
Many discussions around data governance revolve around firms, citizens and consumers – and rightfully so. One aspect that is being under-discussed is the workplace. This shows in both existing regulatory approaches and the application of competition policy, as well as in discussions on new ...
TUAC Response to the OECD Public Consultation on Tax Challenges of Digitalisation
TUAC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the OECD consultation on Pillar One and Pillar Two Blueprints. This publication follows the November 2019 consultation on a proposed unified approach to address the tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy, and the December 2019 consultation ...
Evidence against Prop22 – OECD views on false self-employment and platform work
On 3 November 2020, the citizens of California voted in favour of “Proposition nb 22” which will classify “app-based workers” as independent contractors without access to employment standards. Uber and Lyft reportedly spent USD200 million in campaign activities in favour of the proposition. ...
OECD-G20 Forum delivers a watered down proposal on the taxation of digital businesses / Une proposition au rabais du Forum OCDE-G20 sur la taxation du
Key messages On 31 January 2020, the OECD-hosted G20 Inclusive Framework, composed of over hundred countries, made progress to devise new rules for the taxation of multinationals’ profits. Considering the number of national interests around the table, the complexity of the process, and the ...
