This is a guest post from Quenton Hall, AI System Architect for Industrial, Scientific and Medical applications.
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Wolfgang Niedenzu1, Marcus Huber2, and Erez Boukobza3,41Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria2Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation der Österreichischen...
The previous installment in our series on labor law issues for the transit employer considering automation discussed the Federal Transit Act. That Act, in part, requires advance notice of proposed changes that may result in the dismissal or displacement of employees, or rearrangement of the working forces covered by the agreement as a result of projects subject to the Act. This final installment discusses notice requirements under other laws and agreements.
As part of our series on labor law issues for the transit employer considering automation, we turn now to the Federal Transit Act.
In order to acquire, improve or operate a mass transit system, perhaps as part of an effort to automate, a transit authority may seek a construction grant or loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Authority (FTA) under the Federal Transit Act. The Act requires, as a precondition to receiving a grant or loan, that an applicant enter into a “protective arrangement” with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that provides for the preservation of certain employment rights and benefits of mass transit workers.
On May 31, 2019, the developers of the highly profitable GandCrab 'ransomware-as-a-service' announced that they were retiring after earning over $2 billion USD...
Last week, we introduced the duty of transit systems to bargain with labor unions over the decision to implement automation, robotics or artificial intelligence and over the effects of such a decision. That post discussed three statutory and contractual sources of the duty to bargain and the transit employers to whom the duty applies. Today, we discuss potential subjects for which an employer and union must bargain and steps an employer can take now to better position itself to automate.
