will monitor the use of algorithmic control over workers
The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has announced that the Labor and Social Security Inspection has opened a surveillance campaign on large technology companies operating in Spain. “We are going to monitor the use of algorithmic control that these companies have over workers”Díaz revealed during his speech in a commission in the Congress of Deputies.
“From now on, There is a campaign underway by the Labor and Social Security Inspection to monitor the use of algorithms in the large technology companies that operate in our country, whether they are called Uber, Amazon or whatever they are called,” said the second vice president. Neither Díaz nor her team have given more details about the content of the campaign that has been started.
Díaz has stated that although these are “very modern, 21st century” companies, they operate under “Dickensian, 19th century conditions.” “The Amazon model, which allows its workers to work 120 hours a weekwe are not going to consent to it. Neither does the model of technology companies that have monitoring bracelets to see the time employees spend when they go to the bathroom,” added the Minister of Labor.
Díaz has promised act “forcefully” and has warned that the inspection “is already launched”. “We are going to act forcefully. We are going to tell the techno-business magnates in the world that in Spain labor rights are respected and fulfilled,” he concluded. The vice president’s statements come less than a week after Amazon announced an ERE that will affect 1,200 corporate sector employees in the Madrid and Barcelona workplaces.
