Today, we propose a set of measures to improve the working conditions in #PlatformWork 🚗🍕 The rules will provide: 🤝 labour rights and benefits for people working through platforms 🛡️ protection as regards the use of algorithmic management ⚖️ legal certainty Learn more 👇🏽

We need to ensure decent working conditions for people working through digital labour platforms. Today, we are proposing measures to improve them and to support the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms in the EU. #PlatformWork #SocialRights

🚨📢 Major #gigeconomy news: new #EU rules for platform work published today, incl employment status presumption and rules for algorithmic management – innovative & welcome measures. Let’s take a closer look 🧵👇

BREAKING: After yrs of worker/union advocacy, litigation & organising, European Commission publishes #gigeconomy work Directive with a presumption of employment status for app-workers & provisions on algo mgmt. Amendments needed, but a MASSIVE step forward.🧵1/ ec.europa.eu/social/BlobSer…

🎯 Today the European Commission proposes a set of measures to improve the working conditions in #platformwork and to support the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms in the EU. The text ec.europa.eu/social/main.js… via EU Social 🇪🇺 / a short commentary socialeurope.eu/european-commi…

+++ ANOTHER BREAKING ON PLATFORM WORK +++ According to Commissioner Nicolas SCHMIT the Commission is also about to issue guidelines on collective bargaining for solo-self employed persons, including platform workers. More about this soon!

Amongst all the excitement re status reclassification & algorithmic management, there's also this 👇 Hugely important issue, on which Valerio De Stefano Nicola Countouris & Ioannis Lianos have done fantastic work

So here are the Questions and Answers from the EU Commission about their Guidelines on collective bargaining of self-employed people ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… A short THREAD

The European Commission Draft Dir. on working conditions in the platform economy has just been released ec.europa.eu/social/BlobSer… Better than feared (and a bit worse than hoped)! As put by Ludovic Voet it ends a long period of anomy etuc.org/en/pressreleas… Some key points are👇:

LIVE joint discussion on key European Commission #PlatformWork Directive x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Gig", "rideshare" & "ride hailing" are deceitful terms. There is no gig. It's employment. Drivers aren't serendipitously sharing a journey they make anyway with a passenger who wants to go the same way. There is no hailing. It's a trip pre-booked w an operator. Reject the frames!

“#Algorithms and Prejudice? Covid-19, Contact Tracing and #DigitalSurveillance in the EU”. Antonella Zarra, Matilde Ceron, Silvia Favalli identify potential privacy violations, discriminatory outcomes and limits to accessibility that go beyond the #COVID19 crisis: centroeinaudi.it/biblioteca-del…

📢 Really excited about tomorrow's high-level conference on #AI governance Faculty of Law! We'll explore global comparative AI regulation & debate approaches to the risks & benefits of #AI. Join us online👉 bit.ly/3rOssIK to hear our fantastic line-up of speakers🧵

Catch-up with The Gig Economy Project's coverage of #UberFiles: 5 things you need to know: braveneweurope.com/the-uberfiles-… Reaction from platform workers' movement: braveneweurope.com/gig-economy-pr… Why we should worry about Uber's attempts to influence the platform work directive: braveneweurope.com/gig-economy-pr…

I could not be more thrilled that “Your boss is an algorithm” is out today. Antonio Aloisi and I summarize here the results of years of academic research on labour and tech, artificial intelligence at work, and platform work, in a language accessible to everyone bloomsbury.com/uk/your-boss-i…

This arrived today. Not too bad indeed!

.Nastazja Potocka-Sionek and I have a new paper that addresses the provisions on #algorithmicmanagement & automated monitoring laid down in the proposed 🇪🇺 Directive on Platform Work ➽ doi.org/10.6092/issn.1…. It’s a promising development that does not prevent the risk of legal uncertainty.

We’ve got mail. It’s here. It’s real. Get your copy: bloomsbury.com/uk/your-boss-i…

Before the invention of the #office in the late 19th century, the whole city was a #workplace. Rather than the precarity of hot-desking, the issue is whether that idea of the city itself as a dispersed place of work might return: on.ft.com/3SC5DUC via edwin heathcote + @ft

The EU’s proposed Platform Work Directive has broadly well-drafted protections on algorithmic management—new digital rights for individuals & collectives. Platforms will fight this. In our new 📝 Reuben Binns @[email protected] six silberman + I propose strengthening tweaks doi.org/jjr2 🧵