Around 28 million Europeans worked for digital platform companies such as Google and Uber in 2020. 5.5 million of them are misclassified as self-employed, according to Commission estimates. Negotiations are currently underway on the Platform Work Directive, which aims to improve people’s working conditions. The deliberations of Parliament and Council are taking an unexpectedly long time. However, the first compromises are now emerging in Parliament, as Markus Grabitz reports.