Platform work: Parliament forges first c • Table.Briefings

In the future, it will not be the employees who have to prove whether an employment relationship exists, but Google, Uber and Co.: At the heart of the proposal to improve the situation of platform workers is the reversal of the burden of proof. Because the devil is in the details, however, the deliberations of Parliament and the Council are taking an unexpectedly long time.

The first compromises are emerging in the European Parliament in the negotiations on the Platform Work Directive. Most controversial in European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit’s draft are the criteria for when a platform is an employer and the mechanism for gaining an employment relationship with entitlement to minimum wage, social security and the right to paid leave.

Platform work: Parliament forges first compromises

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