As policymakers seek solutions to the current and future impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on workers across the country, workers themselves are using their union bargaining power to negotiate contract …
Unions seek privacy probes over Amazon’s work surveillance systems
Trade unions from 11 different European countries have written to data protection authorities across the bloc asking them to investigate Amazon’s data surveillance practices, according to a letter seen by …
Wisconsin ruling that Amazon drivers are employees stands, state’s high court unanimously decides
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online …
EU Advances Watered-Down Labor Plan for Uber, Deliveroo Workers
European Union countries reached a breakthrough Monday on planned rules over workers’ rights in the gig economy, after EU member states reached the necessary majority to move ahead with the …
Platform Work Directive
This Directive aims to improve the working conditions of platform workers and to protect the personal data of persons performing platform work in the European Union. https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-7212-2024-ADD-1/en/pdf
In last-minute upset, France pitches new changes to gig work file
As EU ambassadors were due to meet on Friday (8 March) to try to agree again a provisional deal on the platform work directive, France circulated a set of changes …
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It takes three to tango in the EU: the new European Directive on Platform Work
In March 2024, The European Union’s institutions reached an agreement to adopt a European Directive on Platform Work. To understand the content of this Directive, it is essential to know what European directives …