Platform workers within the EU law
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https://doi.org/10.12795/e-RIPS.2023.mon.05Keywords:
Platform work, European Union, Legal classification, Floor of rights, European definition of workerAbstract
This article seeks to understand the path of the European institutions to strengthen the protection of platform workers and what it would mean to introduce a European definition of a worker. To do so, it will review the main case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the concept of worker, the attempt at a legal definition of worker at European level, the European Commission’s guidelines for the negotiation of certain self-employed persons and, finally, the proposed directive for platform workers.
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