GDPiR: Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations

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GDPiR: Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations. The project idea is to provide trade unionists with adequate information and training in order to manage the dynamics connected to workers' data processing and to data processing in the workplace in the broad sense. The objective is to provide workers' organisations with the skills and knowledge needed to harness, with a proactive attitude, the potential of small and big data in their action. Indeed, while the analysis of workplace data is usually managed by the employer to inform business decisions, trade unions can play a role in these processes and exploit the potential of data also for the improvement of workers' conditions (i.e. regarding wages, work organization and health and safety). Moreover, the same skills and knowledge are fundamental to enable workers’ organisations to protect workers from the expected risks of datafication (i.e. intensified monitoring of the work and the workers; data-driven decision making). GDPiR aims at improving collective bargaining and social dialogue initiatives in this field and enhancing the adoption of collective solutions for the protection of workers’ rights in the midst of technological surveillance and a sustainable digital transformation. While other actions financed under this budget line have been intended to foster the role of industrial relations in managing the digital transition, this would be the first action to address the topic from the specific perspective of data processing in the workplace