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WORKERS must be protected from employers tracking them while they work from home during the pandemic, Labour said today.
Online software can log how long it takes people to reply to messages, take camera shots and monitor emails, messages and meeting attendance.
One in five firms have introduced software to monitor productivity, or are planning to do so, according to a YouGov survey of more than 2,009 “corporate decision-makers” between October and November.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
