Platform Work Directive News Today

Dear colleagues, I am happy to contact you on the eve of the 2024 International Workers’ Day – in a crucial time for workers and their trade unions.  This is the first International Workers’ Day since the Berlin Congress and celebration of the 50 years of the ETUC in and since our common demand for a fair deal for workers. 

Wednesday, 24 April

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a forthcoming law on when workers on platforms like Uber and Deliveroo should be treated as employees. Platforms have argued that such workers are self-employed, excluding them from some European Union labour rights such as paid holidays and sick leave. The Platform Work Directive would classify workers on "gig-economy" apps as employees in cases where platforms control factors such as how much money workers are paid or their working hours,...

European Union policymakers reached a provisional agreement on the Platform Work Directive on March 11, 2024, which reveals significant concessions on the classification of digital...

Europe moved a step closer to giving so-called gig economy workers at online platforms such as Uber and Deliveroo greater social and labour rights.

BRUSSELS, March 12 — EU states on Monday endorsed controversial rules to cover app workers in the so-called gig economy, after weeks of wrangling over the watered-down text. A...

European Union lawmakers and Belgium clinched a political deal last month, but only after diluting the Commissions proposal. They then failed to muster enough votes in favour from EU countries as France, Germany, Estonia and Greece abstained.

The former president, who once tried to force a TikTok sale, now opposes the measure. That puts Republican lawmakers in a tricky situation.

BRUSSELS :Europe moved a step closer to giving so-called gig economy workers at online platforms such as Uber and Deliveroo greater social and labour rights on Monday, although companies said little would change under the watered-down rules.The draft rules, first proposed by the European Commission in 2021, a

EU ministers have agreed that the bloc should regulate the circumstances under which "gig economy" workers would be granted employee rights. The rules would apply to platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber.