Workers’ Organisations as Enforcement Actors against Algorithmic Discrimination: What Role for the AI Act and Platform Work Directive?

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Abstract

This contribution aims to analyse what the recent AI Act and Platform Work Directive offer to workers’ organisations striving to tackle algorithmic discrimination through litigation. How can workers’ organisations prove algorithmic discrimination, under what circumstances do they have legal standing to bring a discrimination claim, and what additions do to the AI Act and Platform Work Directive provide in this context? Focusing on EU, Dutch, German and Italian law, this contribution addresses these questions.

Keywords
Digitalisation, Collective enforcement, Algorithmic discrimination, AI Act, Platform Work Directive.