The platform economy and social law: key issues in comparative perspective

Book

Corporate authors: European Trade Union Institute, Brussels

Edited by: Daugareilh, Isabelle ; Degryse, Christophe ; Pochet, Philippe

Publisher: ETUI - Brussels

Publication date: 2019

Pages: 143 p.

Keywords: digital economy ; sharing economy ; crowd work ; labour law ; employment ; labour relations ; temporary work agency ; EU law ; future of work ; trade union ; collective bargaining ; comparison

Geographic area: EU countries ; Switzerland ; USA

Series: Working Paper

Serial number: 2019.10

Subject: Economics

Weblink: http://www.etui.org/

Language: English

Illustrations: Bibliogr.

ISBN/ISSN: 1994-4446

Shelfmark: 03.01-67636

"This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion. The second part of this working paper confirms that it is in the gaps and ambiguities in social legislation that platforms are trying to legitimise a business model abrogating all social responsibility. It is in this sense that we can talk about the risk of “social evasion” of several major platforms, exactly in the same way as fiscal evasion. "

Support: Digital;Paper

ISBN (PDF) : 1994-4454

Legal deposit : D/2019/10.574/25

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