As growing automation pushes low-skilled workers into informal jobs with greater degrees of precariousness, technology could also help vulnerable employees, said Urmila Bhoola, a UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. However, with many police forces facing stretched budgets and slave-owners hiding from view, technology can help show them where to look, said Bhoola. “Technology can be used to make work more secure, but it is not the only way that people are able to get paid for their work,” she said. In October, Bhoola is set to deliver a report on current and emerging forms of slavery to the UN.
As growing automation pushes low-skilled workers into informal jobs with greater degrees of precariousness, technology could also help vulnerable employees, said Urmila Bhoola, a UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. “Technology can be used to make work more secure, but it is not the only way that people are able to get paid for their work,” she said. In October, Bhoola is set to deliver a report on current and emerging forms of slavery to the UN.