Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Government should legislate to implement the provisions set out in the TUC AI and Employment Bill, including Workplace AI Impact Assessments, human oversight for high-risk decisions, and strengthened worker data rights.

HMT should capture productivity gains for public use through wealth taxation, equalisation of capital gains and income tax, review incentives for investment in labour-augmenting technology, and increase the bank surcharge.

Labour market economists have long demonstrated that the amount of work in the economy is not fixed, and that labour market adjustments can create more jobs. Yet this ‘lump of labour fallacy’ is still applied to debates about technological innovation...

Employers who want effective AI adoption need to negotiate with workers and their unions over the risks and benefits, so that any productivity gains are shared through higher wages or shorter working time – rather than being used to cut jobs and grow...