Surface-Level Compliance vs. Meeting The Deeper Purpose
The Platform Work Directive has finally entered into force, and with it an obligation for Member States to establish an effective rebuttable…
On 11 March 2024, the European co-legislators approved a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work—the ‘Platform Work Directive’ (PWD).[1] It targets two challenges in digital labour…
The need for protections beyond the contractual status
The proposal for a directive “on improving working conditions in platform work”[1] is part of a broad reformist design, aimed at balancing…
On 13 December 2023, the Hungarian Supreme Court (Curia) ruled on the classification of platform work relations between a food delivery platform (Platform) and a delivery driver. This is the first…
Introduction: the need for a new employment presumption
The Portuguese Labour Code was recently amended through Act 13/2023, of 3 April (known as the “Decent Work Agenda”), which entered into…
Background
The proposed EU directive on improving working conditions in platform work is the first legislative initiative that attempts to regulate the use of AI, in the form of algorithmic…
Representation and Voice of Platform Workers as an Instrumental Tool for Improvement of their working conditions
“Ways to improve labour conditions of platform workers” are at the top of the EU’s…
