Published: March 27th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The EU directive on platform work will hardly have any changes for employees in Germany. This is the conclusion drawn by labor lawyers and industry experts in Table.Briefings after the Council adopted the political compromise without the votes of France and Germany. The FDP blocked Germany’s approval of the proposed legislation until the very end. FDP deputy leader Johannes Vogel described the planned platform rules as an „attack on all self-employed people in Europe“.