Shaping the Future of Digital Work: A Bold Proposal for Platform Worker Rights
A new draft convention proposes to establish a comprehensive rights and protections for platform workers globally.
Valerio De Stefano
Amazon’s office mandate: The hidden power play behind workplace control
Amazon’s office mandate exposes workplace power dynamics and the need to rethink employer control.
Social Europe needs a new concept of ‘worker’
The distinction between employed and self-employed is becoming incoherent and outdated.
‘Gig’ workers in Europe: the new platform of rights
A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.
Generative AI needs more than a light touch
Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.
Making labour law fit for all those who labour
EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.
Working from a distance: remote or removed?
Remote work will outlast the pandemic. But workers must be inoculated against the risks.
The Metaverse is a labour issue
The Metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies.
European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work
The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front of the platform companies.
Artificial intelligence and workers’ rights
A draft EU regulation on artificial intelligence risks exclusion of the social partners and lack of compliance with data-protection requirements.
Who will be covered by an EU instrument on platform work?
A broad definition of the ‘worker’ will be essential to avoid platform companies sustaining false self-employment claims.
The ‘long Covid’ of work relations and the future of remote work
The pandemic made us all familiar with ‘social distancing’. Employers are starting to glimpse a future where ‘contractual distancing’ is normalised.
Collective-bargaining rights for platform workers
The pioneering Danish collective agreement on platform-based domestic workers has been vitiated by a misguided ruling by its competition authority.