Addressing Workplace Discrimination, Labor Disputes, and Cybercrime in Modern Employment Practices

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Authors: Geetha Priya Thiyagarajan, K. C. Raja Shree, R. Ramya
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Abstract

The job market is radically changing in the influence of digitalization, international mobility, teleworking, and active growth of AI aggravated three significant HR management legal issues that are workplace discrimination, labor disputes, and cybercrime. Based on current literature, the chapter describes how discrimination remains in novel forms such as algorithmic discrimination, online bullying, and remote work inequalities. It also examines how labor conflict is getting more complicated due to digital contracting, platform work, and transnational employment relations. The emergence of cybercrime and data breach can come with the new form of liability to organizations, HR departments, and workers that has never been present before. It analyzes law precedents, policy changes and organizational governance controls that are required to comply and reduce risks through a systematic analytic framework. This offering strategic suggestions to enhance ethical HR governance, enhance digital resilience and fair, inclusive and secure employment practices in the new future of work.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Legal and Labor Studies Labor Law and Work Dynamics Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Publication details

Journal / source
IGI Global eBooks
Pages
105–132
Publication date
15 January 2026
Language
NG
Document type
Book chapter