Today, more than 28 million people in the EU work through digital platforms in a wide variety of sectors. Their number is expected to reach 43 million by 2025. In the European Commission’s (“Commission“) view around 5.5 million people in the EU providing services via platforms are wrongfully treated as self-employed and are at risk of poor working conditions and insufficient access to social protection.
With the aim of improving the working conditions of these platform workers, the Commission published a proposal for a Directive on 9 December 2021. According to the Commission, the proposed Directive should ensure greater protection of platform workers. If the Directive is adopted, European member states will have two years to adapt their national legislation accordingly.
The aim of the Directive is to improve the working conditions and social rights of platform workers. More specifically, it addresses – in short – the following specific objectives:
Classification of the employment status should primarily be guided by the actual performance of the work and not by how the employment relationship is described in the contract. Under the proposal, platform workers will be presumed...
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