"The On Demand Economy (ODE) continues to be the subject of an important legal debate, which is tied to the future of work and how employment law can or should deal with new and hybrid forms of work. Famous ODE examples, each operating in a highly disruptive context, include Deliveroo, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Uber. In their respective operations, these ODE organisations typically do not see a place for the traditional restrictions or mandatory requirements of employment law, usually because they refuse to qualify themselves as employers and their workers as their employees. A particular area of emphasis in the report is how ‘gig' or ODE workers are treated under the current approach, and in a variety of legal systems in 16 countries across five continents. ..."

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