El despido de los trabajadores por la automatización de sus puestos de trabajo: ¿es posible?

Abstract

Industry 4.0, known as the fourth industrial revolution, is being implemented in Spain. This means that businessmen are betting on its establishment, through the technologies involved, such as cloud, Big Data, cyber-physical systems, sensoring, collaborative robotics, additive or layered manufacturing, among others. It can be inferred, therefore, that the arrival of those technologies at work may generate, among other things, layoffs in the companies that implement them. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether it is legal to dismiss a worker because of the automation of his or her job.