This article has been published by the ET LegalWorld at Levelling the Labour Field: Antitrust Scrutiny in
Employment Markets, ETLegalWorld
Competition law enforcement has traditionally centered around
price-fixing and market allocation-related practices involving
tangible goods and services. Over the last few years, the focus has
shifted towards regulating the digitisation of these markets,
driven by the growth of e-commerce. Now, with the increasing
deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) into
mainstream services, antitrust regulation has turned towards
monitoring the impact of AI on competitive conditions. But, as
AI's growth is concomitant with the development of large
language models, robotics, and edge computing, each of which, in
turn, require highly skilled individuals like researchers,
engineers and data scientists to build, fine-tune, and responsibly
deploy these technologies – there is a
renewed, albeit, distinct regulatory interest to
ensure
