Digital Labour Platforms: Dusk or Dawn of Labour Law?

Unterschütz, Joanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-28511-1_20

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“…In order to organise platform workers, trade unions also take the strategy to challenge workers' misclassification as self-employed. One of the well-known examples is the case supported by GMB, followed by similar cases in Italy and France (Kenner 2019;Johnston 2019;Unterschütz 2020). There are also smaller unions formed to represent precarious workers like the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) in the UK or the New York Taxi Workers Alliance -NYTWA (Johnston 2019).…”

Section: Status Of Platform Workers As An Obstacle To Organisementioning

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Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers

Unterschütz

2021

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The purpose of this short discussion paper is to outline the problems faced by collective labour law in face of new forms of work organization such as digital platforms. The digital economy has brought automation of work, digitalisation of processes and coordination by platforms. In comparison to other companies there are significant differences in the way platforms are organized and managed using algorithms. Employment platform workers have gone a long way from initial form of organising in self-help communities, guilds to co-operatives and full participation in trade union structures. Nowadays it has to be considered how to use technologies and data collected by platform companies to the benefit of workers.

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Section: Status Of Platform Workers As An Obstacle To Organisementioning

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Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers

Unterschütz

2021

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Abandon Hope All Ye Who (Press) Enter Here. Collective Rights of Platform Workers: An Illusion or Hope?

Unterschütz

2022

Defining and Protecting Autonomous Work

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Some remarks to the legal status of platform workers in the light of the latest European jurisprudence

Naumowicz¹

2021

Studia Z Zakresu Prawa Pracy I Polityki Społecznej

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the working conditions of so-called platform workers that have faced the lack of labour and social protection deriving from their formal status of independent contractors. Seeking for protection, numerous claims have been filed by the riders and drivers of digital platforms that were asking for a recognition of the subordinate work. The aim of the present article is to give a critical and brief overview of the latest European jurisprudence regarding the legal status of platform workers. The article focuses on the methodology and criteria applied by the judges in order to examine the particularities of the new forms of work and new forms of surveillance as well. Special attention is paid to on-location work performance by low-skilled individuals conducting services for the digital platforms operating in food delivery and transportation sectors.

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Digital Labour Platforms: Dusk or Dawn of Labour Law?

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers

Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers

Abandon Hope All Ye Who (Press) Enter Here. Collective Rights of Platform Workers: An Illusion or Hope?

Some remarks to the legal status of platform workers in the light of the latest European jurisprudence

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