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"The present material serves to raise awareness on the reality of platform work among national trade union organizations. The ETUI initiative responds to the identified training needs for a common approach to development of this topic at EU level, based on proposals expressed by the ETUC's member organizations. The ETUI's choice of the pedagogical design of this training material reflects the different trade union education needs/approaches existing in the affiliated organizations. The proposed programs have been structured in a general concept.

The suggested training formulas as well as the independent thematic units meet a wide range of needs:
• information on the concept of platform work, its evolution and impact on labour market;
• development of competences for trade union representatives involved in social dialogue in sectors with a high prevalence of platform workers;
• raised awareness on the importance of trade union action for decent working conditions for platform workers.

This training material provides trade union trainers with all the necessary pedagogical elements needed to deliver education activities at national level, compatible with various professional sectors as well as with different levels of time/resource availability."

"This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with a variety of rights with respect to their data, including right of access, right to rectification, and rights regarding automated decision-making. Additionally, Art. 40 of the GDPR establishes the possibility for groups of controllers to develop codes of conduct that clarify the application of GDPR to their particular sectors. This paper details the application of GDPR to labor platforms, provides draft text for an Art. 40 code of conduct for labor platforms, and discusses how such a code could help address procedural problems encountered by platform workers. We hope that this paper can help spark a discussion at European level among trade unions and other stakeholders in platform work about how to use GDPR to address the ‘procedural problems' faced by platform workers, regardless of their employment status."

"The present material serves to raise awareness on the reality of platform work among national trade union organizations. The ETUI initiative responds to the identified training needs for a common approach to development of this topic at EU level, based on proposals expressed by the ETUC's member organizations. The ETUI's choice of the pedagogical design of this training material reflects the different trade union education needs/approaches existing in the affiliated organizations. The proposed programs have been structured in a general concept.

The suggested training formulas as well as the independent thematic units meet a wide range of needs:
• information on the concept of platform work, its evolution and impact on labour market;
• development of competences for trade union representatives involved in social dialogue in sectors with a high prevalence of platform workers;
• raised awareness on the importance of trade union action for decent working conditions for platform workers.

This training material provides trade union trainers with all the necessary pedagogical elements needed to deliver education activities at national level, compatible with various professional sectors as well as with different levels of time/resource availability."

"The present material serves to raise awareness on the reality of platform work among national trade union organizations. The ETUI initiative responds to the identified training needs for a common approach to development of this topic at EU level, based on proposals expressed by the ETUC's member organizations. The ETUI's choice of the pedagogical design of this training material reflects the different trade union education needs/approaches existing in the affiliated organizations. The proposed programs have been structured in a general concept.

The suggested training formulas as well as the independent thematic units meet a wide range of needs:
• information on the concept of platform work, its evolution and impact on labour market;
• development of competences for trade union representatives involved in social dialogue in sectors with a high prevalence of platform workers;
• raised awareness on the importance of trade union action for decent working conditions for platform workers.

This training material provides trade union trainers with all the necessary pedagogical elements needed to deliver education activities at national level, compatible with various professional sectors as well as with different levels of time/resource availability."

"The present material serves to raise awareness on the reality of platform work among national trade union organizations. The ETUI initiative responds to the identified training needs for a common approach to development of this topic at EU level, based on proposals expressed by the ETUC's member organizations. The ETUI's choice of the pedagogical design of this training material reflects the different trade union education needs/approaches existing in the affiliated organizations. The proposed programs have been structured in a general concept.

The suggested training formulas as well as the independent thematic units meet a wide range of needs:
• information on the concept of platform work, its evolution and impact on labour market;
• development of competences for trade union representatives involved in social dialogue in sectors with a high prevalence of platform workers;
• raised awareness on the importance of trade union action for decent working conditions for platform workers.

This training material provides trade union trainers with all the necessary pedagogical elements needed to deliver education activities at national level, compatible with various professional sectors as well as with different levels of time/resource availability."

"The European Commission proposed a Directive on Platform Work at the end of 2021. While much attention has been placed on its effort to address misclassification of the employed as self-employed, it also contains ambitious provisions for the regulation of the algorithmic management prevalent on these platforms. Overall, these provisions are well-drafted, yet they require extra scrutiny in light of the fierce lobbying and resistance they will likely encounter in the legislative process, in implementation and in enforcement. In this article, we place the proposal in its sociotechnical context, drawing upon wide cross-disciplinary scholarship to identify a range of tensions, potential misinterpretations, and perversions that should be pre-empted and guarded against at the earliest possible stage. These include improvements to ex ante and ex post algorithmic transparency; identifying and strengthening the standard against which human reviewers of algorithmic decisions review; anticipating challenges of representation and organising in complex platform contexts; creating realistic ambitions for digital worker communication channels; and accountably monitoring and evaluating impacts on workers while limiting data collection. We encourage legislators and regulators at both European and national levels to act to fortify these provisions in the negotiation of the Directive, its potential transposition, and in its enforcement."

"The promise—and perils—of algorithmic management are increasingly recognised in the literature. How should regulators respond to the automation of the full range of traditional employer functions, from hiring workers through to firing them? This article identifies two key regulatory gaps—an exacerbation of privacy harms and information asymmetries, and a loss of human agency—and sets out a series of policy options designed to address these novel harms. Redlines (prohibitions), purpose limitations, and individual as well as collective information rights are designed to protect against harmfully invasive data practices; provisions for human involvement ‘in the loop' (banning fully automated terminations), ‘after the loop' (a right to meaningful review), ‘before the loop' (information and consultation rights) and ‘above the loop' (impact assessments) aim to restore human agency in the deployment and governance of algorithmic management systems."