"On 3 July 2025, the General Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a resolution committing the ILO to adopt a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation concerning decent work in the platform economy following a second discussion on this issue in 2026. PI welcomes the ILO's decision as a step in the right direction to protect platform workers who have been at the forefront of new forms of data exploitation in the workplace as we have been documenting for many years."
"The platform economy has created an environment of unprecedented surveillance and monitoring for workers that greatly threatens privacy and other fundamental rights. In August 2025, the ILO published updated texts of the draft Convention supplemented by a Recommendation on decent work in the platform economy. PI has examined these texts and provides its analysis of key provisions of them in the attached document below."
"Our overall assessment is that the current draft does not sufficiently address certain challenges related to the use of automated systems. In particular, PI is encouraging the ILO and its Members to develop instruments that strongly protect the privacy of digital labour workers by implementing the following measures: Requiring platforms to maintain a public register of automated systems deployed and provide workers and their representatives with comprehensive information in accessible language about their purpose, design and functioning. Such information should be provided to workers before they are subject to an automated system, and following any update of the systems concerned;"
On 3 July 2025 the ILO General Conference adopted a resolution committing the ILO to adopt a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation on decent work in the platform economy after a second discussion in 2026. The platform economy has created unprecedented surveillance and monitoring that greatly threatens privacy and other fundamental rights. In August 2025 the ILO published updated draft texts. The current draft does not sufficiently address challenges related to automated systems. Instruments should strongly protect privacy by requiring platforms to maintain a public register of deployed automated systems, provide workers accessible information before deployment and after updates, and give written explanations for automated decisions including key parameters considered.
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