This year, after a long and embattled process, the EU adopted new rules to improve working conditions on digital labour platforms, particularly regarding employment status and the use of algorithmic management.  

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called the 2024 Platform Work Directive ‘a policy milestone’ and ‘a testament to the resilience of collective efforts’.  

Discussion with Tea Jarc, ETUC Confederal Secretary, and Silvia Rainone, ETUI Senior Researcher, about what exactly is in the Directive, what it took to get it passed, and what it means for the millions of people working through digital platforms today. 

Further reading  

⁠The EU Platform Work Directive | etui⁠  

⁠Inevitable, vulnerable, unprofitable: an inquiry into food delivery platforms in Europe | etui⁠  

⁠Digital labour platforms and migrant workers | etui⁠  

⁠Exercising workers' rights in algorithmic management systems | etui⁠  

⁠Juggling online gigs with offline jobs | etui⁠  

⁠Collective bargaining in the platform economy | etui⁠  

⁠The platform economy in Europe | etui⁠  

⁠Platform Economy | ETUC⁠