On 24 August 2023, the Federal Labour Court declared the legitimacy of a dismissal without notice of an employee who sent insulting, racist, sexist, and violent comments about managers and colleagues in a private chat group with other colleagues.
A new reportpublished by the ILO in August 2023 presents a global analysis of tasks and occupations implications to generative Artificial Intelligence.
According to the study, technology is likely to automate some tasks within an occupation while leaving time for other duties, as opposed to fully automating occupations.
This study disregards the widespread concern that such technology could lead to job displacement. Lost jobs and industries are only partially exposed to automation and will be augmented and not replaced by generative AI.
On 11 July 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the Employment Outlook 2023, which shows the latest labour market developments in OECD countries.
It focuses on wage developments and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market (an OECD first-ever study in this area).
Assuming an imminent technological revolution that could radically change the workplace, the report states that there are no signs of slowing labour demand, in the short-term, but possible changes in job quality and tasks.
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority presented its draft guidance on the privacy aspects of monitoring remote work, offering clarifications and recommendations for the conduct of organisations on this issue.
In Gramaxo v. Portugal judgment (no. 26968/1616), on 15 December 2022, the European Court of Human Rights established that it is legitimate the dismissal decided by the employer based on data collected by a GPS system installed on a vehicle used for work, to track the kilometres travelled.
It is the first time the Court ruled on a case of surveillance at work through a geolocation system, setting out the criteria to ensure the correct balance between the rights of the employee and the employer and the possibility of using the data collected in the process.
On 19 July 2022, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) stated that communicating an employee’s sensitive health data to other employees without their specific consent and including this data in a minute of a meeting is a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The Social Division of the Supreme Court upheld the appropriateness of the installation, for the sole purpose of identifying and dismissing workers who had vandalised various vending machines, of hidden cameras in the canteen of a work centre.
Even though the workers had not been previously informed of the installation of the cameras, the seriousness of the acts committed by the workers justified their disciplinary dismissal for breach of contract.
The dismissal based on inspecting private correspondence of the employee by using employer's power of surveillance authority violates privacy and freedom of communication rights of the employee, guaranteed by the Turkish Constitution.
The decision confirmed the significance of informing employees about the employer’s right for inspection or getting consent for this when needed in case of internal investigation.