ABOUT THE PROJECT
Wage labour is the main source of livelihood for billions of people in the modern world. Increasing informatization of society affects the structure of labour relations, gradually changing their content. The result of the next stage of digital development in the paradigm of Industry 4.0 will be the universal robotization of the economy. This will inevitably amend the subject composition of the employment relationship.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will radically change the technological structure, the labour market and the social environment. The loss of jobs for people in favour of robots will become a worldwide problem. International organizations and legislative bodies of some states are already discussing the issue of granting the status of "electronic personhood" to robots. This means the recognition of "smart" robots as subjects of labour law in the future.
The current labour legislation is not able to effectively protect human workers when including artificial intelligence in labour relations. The existing principles of legal regulation of labour do not meet the needs of society in the digital economy.
This project includes a study of the problems associated with the upcoming transformation of labour relations. The aim of the project is to solve these problems through the formulation of a number of new principles of legal regulation of labour. The project implementation will prepare the ground for timely amendments to Russian legislation.
Research team
Leader
Irina Filipova
PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Department of Labour Law and Environmental Law, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Since 2007, Irina Filipova has been conducting comparative legal studies on the peculiarities of the legal regulation of labour in European countries and in Russia. In 2018, the implementation of the Jean Monnet Erasmus project on European labour law began.
Since 2016, she has begun research on the issues of changing the legal regulation of labour in a digital society.
In 2018, Irina Filipova was among the participants of the “Island 10-21” program - intensive for technology leaders under the auspices of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. During the intensive course of the SKOLKOVO Open University, the project “Transformation of labor legislation as a result of the introduction of artificial intelligence in production” was defended. The project includes the development of a service program for decision-making assistance in changing labor laws (an automated self-learning algorithm for generating recommendations).
Main publications on the subject of this project:
1. Filipova I.A. Labour law: challenges of digital society. Law. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 2020. No. 2. Pp. 162-182. DOI: 10.17323/2072-8166.2020.2.162.182 (in russian)
2. Filipova I.A. Algorithmization: Impact on the Labour Market and Its Regulation. Russian justice. 2020. No. 11. Pp. 12-14. (in russian)
3. Filipova I.A. Artificial Intelligence in the System of Labor Relationships Considering the Work for Hire Concept. Intellectual property law. 2020. No. 1. Pp. 21-25. (in russian)
4. Filipova I.A. Transformation of the Legal Regulation of Labour in the Digital Society. Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law. Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny Novgorod State University, 2019. 89 p. (in russian)
5. Filipova I.A. Robot-worker: Reality, Risks, Regulation. Russian justice. 2019. No. 3. Pp. 57-59. (in russian)
6. Filipova I.A. Psychosocial Risks of Employees in Production Robotization and the Role of Legal Regulation. Business and Law Journal. 2019. No. 12. Pp. 43-49. (in russian)
7. Filipova I. A. Legal Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: the Need for Regulation in Russia, Foreign Studies and Practice. State and law. 2018. No. 9. Pp. 79-88. DOI: 10.31857/S013207690001517-0. (in russian)
8. Filipova I. A. Legal Regulation of Labour 2020: the Paradigm Shift Due to Digitalization of the Economy. Jurist. 2018. No. 11. Pp. 31-35. DOI: 10.18572/1812-3929-2018-11-31-35. (in russian)
9. Filipova I. A. Artificial Intelligence and Labour Relations: Social Perspectives and Trends in Legal Regulation. Russian Justice. 2017. No. 11. Pp. 65-67. (in russian)
Members of the research team
Vasily Shavin
Vladimir Krylov
PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Department of Labour Law and Environmental Law, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, advocate.
Expert of the Competence Center of the Program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation", member of the Working Group "Labour Legislation".
The area of scientific interests is mainly related to the legal capabilities to protect the rights of workers and the study of the correlation between the economic development of society and the effectiveness of the protection of these rights.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in Nizhny Novgorod
Vladimir Krylov conducts research in the field of big data, machine learning, the use of AI technologies in practical tasks, including the construction of a mathematical model of the legal space, the possibilities of adapting digital tools and algorithms to the needs of production.
Permanent participant of the annual Big Data Conference (Moscow).