Towards a New Normal: How to Regulate Remote Working?

An online CESI@noon brought to you by the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI)

Wednesday, June 8 2022, 12:00-13:30
Online (Zoom)

After more than two years of actue pandemic, the world of work is moving towards a New Normal. As predicted and expected by most scholars, politicians and social partner organisations, widespread and sustained remote working is an integral part of this. Even if many workers and employees will not work 100% from home as they were forced to during hard Covid lockdowns, 2/5 or 3/5 distant working schemes are becoming widespread and are in many cases foreseen to stay in the long-term.

How are these remote working schemes regulated (or not)? Do they tend to be imposed unilaterally by employers or are they implemented together with staff and their representatives, to the benefit of flexibility for employers and improved work-life balance for employees?

Can or should everyone have a right to remote working? Concretely, who does and should bear equipment-related and other costs incurred by remote working? How to ensure regulated working time and prevent permanent availabilities of workers? Who is in charge of health & safety and insurance liabilities? How to assure data protection and prevent potential invasive digital surveillance of staff?

What is now expected from unions, social partners and policy makers?

Join our next CESI@noon as we launch CESI’s discussion paper on ‘Telework or ICT-based mobile work in the post-pandemic world of work.

Sara Rinaudo
Chair of CESI’s Working Group on the Future of Work and National Secretary of the Italian Fismic-Confsal union

Oscar Vargas
​Research Manager at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

Carmen Jaffke
Executive Committee member of the Luxembourgish General Confederation of Public Services (CGFP)

Javier Jordán de Urries Sagarna
President ‘Justice Sector’ at the Spanish CSIF union and Vice-President of CESI

Mantas Stanžys
Legal Secretary at the Lithuanian RJPS union

Moderator: Klaus Heeger
Secretary General of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI)