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2021年2月24日

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Politico

Commission launches consultation on platform workers

The European Commission on Wednesday 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.” ...

The consultation will give trade unions and business lobbies the opportunity to share their views on how EU-wide rules on platform working conditions could work. If the consultation does not lead to an agreement between platforms and those who work for them, the Commission will draft legislation...

Talks toward an agreement are likely to be thorny, as relations between gig work platforms and unions can be bitter, with both facing each other in court cases across Europe.

They also have several contentious issues to hammer out including algorithmic management, access to social protections and collective representation, all of which were identified by the consultation document.

The biggest question is whether workers on online platforms should be considered employees or not. Companies such as Uber have lobbied aggressively for a “third way” between employee status and independent status, which would give workers some basic protections but retain their independent worker status. Finnish food courier company Wolt has argued that employment status could “kill” the gig economy in Europe. 

Critics say this creates a class of “bogus self-employed” people, who have all the responsibilities of an employee but none of the perks. Courts including those in Spain and the U.K. have recently ruled that gig workers are not self-employed. 

The Commission has yet to declare exactly where it stands, and wants to use the consultation as a way of drawing its own conclusion.

“The objective is obviously to give similar rights ... to platform workers than for other workers,” Schmit said. “We are aware that when we look to the court cases, for instance, a lot of issues are turning around the status, and we certainly have to look at that.”

Vestager eschewed the idea of creating a new category for platform workers. “In my experience, discussions become extremely complex when you want to create a new category,” she said.

“We're not in any process to create a third category. But we think that here in the consultation, it's important that we get the feedback on exactly this.”

The European Parliament's center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group and trade unions like the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) [...] believe it should be up to platforms to prove that their “contractors” aren’t employees, rather than the other way round.

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