Technology and occupational risk prevention in transnational collective bargaining. An exploratory analysis
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occupational risk prevention, technology, telework, right to disconnect, psychosocial risks, International Framework AgreementAbstract
When collective bargaining crosses the borders of a country, and even a continent, through the Global Framework Agreements signed by multinational companies with Global Union Federations, some of the working conditions initially limited in their application to the temporal and personal scope of the employer’s headquarters reach an unexpected expansive force. This has been the case up to now with occupational safety and health, as the traditional content of such unique conventions, mainly with the purpose of collecting the fundamental content conventions, recommendations or guides and technical documents of various kinds. The technological revolution underway has had the virtue of providing important renovations in the most veteran ones, breaking new ground in the most recent text, and even inspiring the subscription of some with monographic content dedicated to attending to the appearance of new risks and, also, to facing with greater solvency some of the existing ones thanks to progress. Special mention should be made of those which extend worldwide a careful organisation of psychosocial risks, teleworking, or the right to disconnection.
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