Schutz und Verantwortung in der digitalen und globalen Arbeitswelt

The digital and global world of work combines elements of dependence and independence. Achieving an appropriate balance between protection and freedom is becoming increasingly important as a protective purpose. This encourages an understanding which moves away from reducing labour law to a “protective right” and towards understanding it as a “right of protection and responsibility” with carriers to be determined according to effectiveness. The dissertation takes up this challenge. It concentrates on health protection, analyses the shift in dependencies and freedoms and, using the example of self-endangerment, takes a cross-legal approach with a focus on the German Labour Protection Act.