NEED FOR USE REGULATIONS ALGORITHMS AT THE WORKPLACE.

Digital surveillance in the workplace also brings new challenges in terms of occupational health and safety. The use of algorithmic management and surveillance technologies in the workplace affects the privacy and rights of employees, can hinder freedom of association and damage working conditions, as well as their mental and physical health. At the level of the European Union, the regulation of the use of algorithms at the workplace is aimed at by proposing a directive to improve the working conditions of people working through digital work platforms. The exact legal status of workers on digital platforms, namely whether they should be classified as employees or not, remains an open discussion at European level. The occupational health and safety risks encountered in the case of work on digital platforms are not specific and exclusive to it, as most of them are also specific to work performed outside such a platform. Unionization is one of the measures by which the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work shows that steps can be taken to improve health and safety conditions when working on digital platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]