What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Changed:B. whereas the digital transition at the workplace should be driven by the precautionary and ethics-by-default principles and steered in a manner that protects and promotes human dignity, enhances productivity, efficiency, innovation, and the competitiveness of the European economy and the common market in a manner that profits to all; whereas this transition must equally uphold the principles of social progress and protection of workers’ rights, ensuring that it contributes to quality employment, better working conditions, empowerment and well-being of all workers while supporting a level playing field in the internal market, innovation and the competitiveness of businesses; and whereas AI is still an evolving technology and as such EU companies still have an opportunity to take a leading position in some segments; whereas failure to deploy AI-systems to reinforce EU competitiveness could be detrimental to future growth, investment and innovation; whereas 64%64 % of SMEs in the European Single Market consider regulatory obstacles or administrative burdens to be the biggest problem at present;

Changed:M. whereas estimates vary, that between one-quarter and 80 % of companies in the Union use at least one form of algorithmic management; whereas the uptake of algorithmic management is likely to grow significantly in the coming years; whereas 26,5 % of workers in the EU have their work performance monitored by ‘a computer programme’, with a higher prevalence in large companies; whereas 27,4 % of workers gets tasks allocated via a computer system; whereas 35%35 % of European companies use algorithmic management systems for evaluation; whereas comprehensive and cooperative approach, together with social dialogue, is needed to establish a level playing field for responsible AI and algorithmic management in the workplace;

Changed:18. Underlines that personal data of persons performing work can be aggregated to a collective data base that could be processed by algorithms, therefore requiring data protection at the collective level as well.well;

Changed:22. Recalls that the existing Union acquis constitutes an important building block in regulating algorithmic management and the use of AI in the workplace; welcomes in this regard, the Platform Work Directive, which introduces, inter alia, rules on transparency, data protection, human oversight and review, information and consultation and health and safety in sectors where such technologies are increasingly shaping decisions on work, and the Artificial Intelligence Act and recalls Regulation (EU) 2016/679; stresses, however, that despite this legislative framework, a number of gaps remain as regards workers’ protection, rights and working conditions regarding the use of such tools in the workplace including respect of personal data and privacy, work-life balance and the right to disconnect; highlights that the Platform Work Directive’s provisions on algorithmic management (in particular workers’ rights to transparency, human review, worker information and consultation and OSH) only apply to persons performing platform work leaving other workers increasingly subject to algorithmic management less protected; underlines the need to ensure equal treatment of all workers and that future initiatives are coherent with the protective framework established by the Platform Work Directive;

Changed:ANNEX TO THE MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION: RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO THE CONTENT OF THE PROPOSAL REQUESTED

Changed:(Ex AM E (Or. The proposal should provide for the following definition:

Changed:27. Calls on the Commission to carry out an impact assessment complemented by a Competitiveness and SME test and submit on the basis of Articles 153(2), point (b), in conjunction with Article 153(1), point (b), and Article 16(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and of the result of the aforementioned steps, a legislative proposal on algorithmic management in the workplace, following the recommendations set out in the Annex hereto, which would address the remaining gaps in existing legislation, avoid creation of overlapping legal instruments and improve harmonisation of the internal market;

Changed:The European Parliament considers that, if the Commission, after conducting an impact assessment, complemented by a Competitiveness and SME Test, submits a legislative proposal on algorithmic management in the workplace, the following recommendations should be incorporated: