Sharan Burrow: Social Protections in the Age of Technology

<p>Technology is quickly changing the nature of work. Full-time employment with health care and a pension is being replaced with short-term contracts with no benefits, leaving workers exposed. <a href="https://www.ituc-csi.org/sharan-burrow-6329">Sharan Burrow</a> has been General Secretary of the <a href= "https://www.ituc-csi.org/">International Trade Union Confederation</a> since 2010, and a champion of workers rights in the age of technology. Burrow joined a panel on social protection and the future of work during the 2018 <a href= "https://meetings.imf.org/en/2018/Annual/Seminars">IMF-World Bank Annual meetings</a>. The IMF’s David Pedroza sat down with Sharan Burrow in Bali, Indonesia, where the meetings took place.</p>