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Head of Verdi Bsirske warns of job cuts through digitization – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Head of Verdi Bsirske warns of job cuts through digitization – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The digitization of the world of work involves the assessment of the trade union Verdi opportunities and threats. Then the federal government must respond appropriately, the chairman Bsirske said in Berlin. “We want to make the big challenges for the world of work in the digital age 2015 a focus,” he announced. “There are big opportunities and big risk s,” said Bsirske. When the federal government was an awareness of this ambivalence there. Verdi was – accompanied by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs -. In making the digitization about Sectoral dialogue with the social partners

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

The Union leader warned of digital unemployment. “All professions are threatened by digitization,” he said. “The question is to what extent the automation of muscle strength following an automation of thinking.” Great potential savings in terms of jobs threatened. Automation dividend arises. This must be invested in new jobs – for example in education or health. Daring it would, according to the head of Verdi, relying on that enough replacement jobs developed by itself. “The need to support and promote policy, employers and trade unions.”


                         
         
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The employer could Workers in the digital age also much more control Bsirske said. And this could dispatch retailer Amazon recognize when his warehouse workers stopped during her shift. “And when you’re working on the laptop, work results are absolutely comparable.” This comparability put employees under pressure. Also, you can work anytime from anywhere in principle. “Employees can thus gain autonomy, but at the same time, the pressure is even greater.”


                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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As a concrete step Bsirske called for a codification of the right to non-availability. It should be a concern to take the massively fed undertaken mental illness due to work stress seriously: “In school, education and training has the ability to set boundaries will be taught.” The employees would have their willingness to dissolution of their own performance even more self-reflect. When crowdsourcing is to see musterhaft the risk of a digital precariousness. In this case, do people at home working on the Internet for companies. “Solo self-employed” world competed for contracts and offering solutions – but only the most attractive would be honored. Bsirske warned: “For pension and Auftragslosigkeit those affected can often take no precaution.”


                                                                             
 
  
 
 
 
                       

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