Date:

24 Apr 2024

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The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a watered-down version of the EU’s long-awaited platform work directive at a plenary on Wednesday (24 April), ending two years of intense negotiations with 554 votes in favour and 56 against.

Date:

19 Mar 2024

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On 19 March 2024, the European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee endorsed the political deal on this new bill aiming to improve the working conditions of platform workers.

Date:

19 Mar 2024

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The EU has provisionally endorsed the agreement achieved between the Council's presidency and the negotiators from the European Parliament concerning the directive on platform work. This directive is designed to enhance working conditions and establish regulations on the utilization of algorithms by digital labour platforms.

Date:

16 Mar 2024

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Article

A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.

Date:

11 Mar 2024

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EU countries finally adopted the platform work directive at a meeting of the bloc’s labour ministers on Monday (11 March), after Estonia and Greece, which had abstained in the past, voted in favour “in the spirit of compromise”.

Date:

8 Feb 2024

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European Union lawmakers and countries have again struck a deal on gig worker's rights — but at the cost of the European Commission missing out on one of its key provisions.

Date:

5 Feb 2024

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Article

Following failed interinstitutional negotiations over the platform work directive, the Belgium Presidency circulated yet another draft text, significantly watering down the file’s flagship chapter on the legal presumption of employment.

Date:

15 Jan 2024

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Article

The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU has circulated a new draft text of the platform work directive, which should be the basis for technical negotiations among member states, amid persistent divisions about the directive’s scope.

Date:

22 Dec 2023

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Article

Agreement on a bill to improve working conditions for millions of gig workers in the EU unexpectedly fell apart.

Date:

13 Dec 2023

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The development could deliver a significant boost for millions of gig workers laboring on digital platforms without being afforded workers rights.

Date:

20 Nov 2023

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Article

Negotiations between EU officials over what exactly the directive should include and if have been beset by infighting. Trade unionists and labor activists say that’s because the debate has been heavily influenced by Uber. Labour activists say that arguments put forward by Uber—particularly that a directive that automatically classifies platform workers as employees would threaten jobs—have been repeated by other MEPs and representatives of the European Council.

Date:

31 Oct 2023

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Article

EU institutions are preparing to discuss the functioning of the legal presumption of employment, the most sensitive aspect of the Platform Workers Directive, in a trilogue next Thursday (9 November).

Date:

12 Jun 2023

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In their draft version agreed on 12 June, EU countries propose that companies will be considered employers if they meet three out of seven criteria.

Date:

9 May 2023

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Article

Trade unions and platform worker collectives across Europe have signed an open letter addressed to ministers of labour of the EU member-states, calling for them to support the Platform Work Directive on the Council of the EU which ensures platform workers’ rights are protected. They support the proposal made by the Parliament, in which there is a presumption of employment and it is the companies that have to claim that the workers are autonomous in each context.

Date:

20 Mar 2023

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Article

The Swedish presidency of the EU Council proposed narrowing down the derogation for the presumption of employment, one of the most contentious parts of the platform workers directive, in a new attempt to bridge differences after negotiations broke down in December.

Date:

22 Feb 2023

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Article

Whether the presumption of an employment relationship would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate.

Date:

6 Feb 2023

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Article

The EU Parliament’s approval gives Gualmini the necessary mandate to enter interinstitutional negotiations, known as trilogues, alongside the European Commission and Council.

Date:

20 Jan 2023

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In December 2022, the European Parliament’s Employment Committee adopted amendments to the Platform Work Directive that represent the EU’s best effort yet to curb employment misclassification in the sector and develop world-leading safeguards against the abusive potential of workplace automation.

Date:

19 Dec 2022

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The text was adopted with 41 votes to 12. It will provide the basis for a negotiating mandate with the EU Council unless 71 MEPs request a vote at a plenary session, where amendments alternative to the committee text might be tabled.

Date:

16 Dec 2022

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Article

Privacy International raises concerns about the threats workers face when subjected to automated decision-making systems and claims that the current draft contains shortcomings with regard to the right to privacy.

Date:

31 Oct 2022

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Article

Revelations from MacGann dating back to July 2022, published by The Guardian in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), laid bare how the company broke the law and secretly lobbied international governments to push through their ride-hailing solutions.

Date:

25 Oct 2022

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Article

ETUC, JOC, CECOP, EUROPEAN YOUTH FORUM and SOLIDAR published a letter with suggestions on how to make the EU-commission's proposal for a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work more effective. They argue inter alia for a reversal of the burden of proof with regards to the activation of the presumption of employment and urge for quick action.

Date:

16 May 2022

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Article

In her draft report on the EU Commission's proposal for a platform workers directive, MEP Elisabetta Gualmini pushes for more robust protection for workers and tighter obligations in automated decision-making embedded in the workplace.

Date:

9 Dec 2021

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New draft legislation from the European Commission says the burden of proof on employment status would shift to companies, rather than the individuals who work for them.

Date:

9 Dec 2021

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The EU Commission has published a draft law proposal on improving working conditions in platform work

Date:

7 Dec 2021

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Food delivery apps and other online platform companies might have to reclassify some of their workers as employees under an upcoming EU law proposal

Date:

26 Feb 2021

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Article

The European Commission has launched an initial consultation on improving working conditions for gig economy workers

Date:

24 Feb 2021

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Article

The European Commission launched its first-stage consultation on the rights of platform workers, in a bid to improve the conditions of people working through "digital labour platforms.”