"The paper considers whether it would be advantageous to adopt a comprehensive European definition of the term employee by framing the problem in terms of classification of the work relationship. After outlining the starting points of the analysis and briefly describing the contribution of the European legal framework to the classification of workers, various matters underlying such a classification are discussed, both in a labour law and an economic perspective. The paper concludes, also with reference to the UK experience, by arguing that a comprehensive definition of employee would not solve the problem of worker misclassification"

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