Labor Law 4.0: Relearning Labor Relations

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn" Alvin Toffler.

We learned labor law as a branch of legal sciences, a summation of concepts and theories, that little by little has been clashing with reality. Labor law structured for a society and an organizational system that has changed at a dizzying speed violates the purpose of law in general. Far from becoming a facilitator of processes or labor relations, labor law has become an obstacle, a barrier. For many executives and labor lawyers, the world is still "round", and not "flat" in the style of Thomas Friedman. Some time ago, we stopped living in the round world that generated so many controversies, debates, and theories. The connectivity and even more, the hyperconnectivity of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Revolution 4.0, revealed that the world is not "round," but truly flat.