The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Employee’S Labor Function and Other Related Terms of the Employment Contract

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of the influence of digital technologies on labor. Main directions of the impact of digitalization on the labor function include improvement of the ways of its implementation and the change of its content in connection with the emergence of new types of activities related to the use of electronic devices and technologies. With regard to the use of digital technologies as new ways of performing a labor function and along with their advantages, the paper evaluates possible risks of large-scale replacement of traditional methods with digital ones, and determines the ways to minimize such risks. The influence of digital technologies on the content of the labor function depends on the way in which the labor function was originally defined in the employment contract, as well as on how significantly the labor function changes under the influence of digital technologies and whether its essential content changes. In addition, as an impact of digital technologies on the labor function the author raises the issue concerning reduction of employees’ functionality leading to redundancies. Examining the impact of digitalization on the labor function, the paper describes how the labor function’s change may affect other terms of an employment contract that depends on the terms of the labor function.