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The technological transformation of digitalization and the transition to industry 4.0 will have a profound impact on labor relations in the coming decades, a phenomenon that is already being studied by a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Djamil Tony Kahale Carrillo, with the project 'The impact of Industry 4.0 on work', funded by the Seneca Foundation.

The professor of the Polytechnic, Doctor of Labor Law, is committed to adapting to the new industrial reality the entire environment of the labor world, from legal regulations to education.

"If there is an Industry 4.0 there must be a Training 4.0," says Kahale Carrillo, for whom "there must be an alliance between the company and the educational institutions to respond to the growing demands for new professional profiles."

Project 20976 / PI / 18, one of fifteen of the UPCT subsidized by the Community in its last call for aid to scientific and technical research projects, also proposes to reformulate collective bargaining in pursuit of a "union 4.0" that can give response to the intense changes related to the fourth industrial revolution: “intensification of the workload, new risks for occupational safety and health, greater flexibility and availability requirements and a greater capacity of companies to control and surveillance of workers ”, lists the researcher.

Therefore, one of the objectives of the project is to study how this implementation affects the lives of workers.

Among the positive aspects that are seen with digitalization is the extension of teleworking to facilitate the reconciliation of family and work life, says Kahale Carrillo, while maintaining that it will be the work of the workers' representatives “to propose clauses to protect employees whose functions disappear due to the automation of tasks ”.

Source: UPCT