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Valerio De Stefano

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

Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work

Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.

A new draft convention proposes to establish a comprehensive rights and protections for platform workers globally.

Amazon’s office mandate exposes workplace power dynamics and the need to rethink employer control.

The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.

A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pandemic made us all familiar with ‘social distancing’. Employers are starting to glimpse a future where ‘contractual distancing’ is normalised.

The pioneering Danish collective agreement on platform-based domestic workers has been vitiated by a misguided ruling by its competition authority.