The European Framework Agreement on Digitalisation: a tough coexistence within the EU mosaic of actions

Digital transformation of work is an unstoppable phenomenon, and a “multifaceted topic”. Platform and remote work and data manipulation are only aspects of the whole picture, creating new challenges for public stakeholders. The more the world of work changes, the more industrial relations are stimulated to cope with it. With this aim, European social partners have responded to the impact of Digitalisationon the labour market, with the adoption of the “European framework agreement on Digitalisation” (EFAD). Although the EFADis fully in line with the European involvement in granting rights to workersinvolved in the digital transformation of the labour market, many questions arestill on the table. There are many concerns about the integration of the EFAD within the mosaic of actions at EU levelwith regards to the digitalisation and automation at the workplace. A difficult integration that raises doubts about the effective implementation of the EFAD at national level and even about therole and themaneuvering spacegranted to European Social Partners in this field.