Self-employed workers (Directive 2010/41/EU and some relevant provisions of the Recast Directive)

• Author: Lídia Hermina Balogh
• Pages: 64-67

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8 Self-employed workers ( Directive 2010/41/EU and some relevant

provisions of the Recast Directive)

8.1 General (legal) context

8.1.1 Surveys and reports on the specific difficulties of self-employed workers

No surveys or reports are available from the last five years that provide insight into the

specific difficulties of self-employed workers.

8.1.2 Other issues

No other issues may be mentioned regarding the gender equality aspects of self-

employment.

8.1.3 Overview of national acts

The Hungarian legislation addresses the issue of self–employment in a rather fragmented

and ambiguous way:

- the Act on the Promotion of Employment and on Assistance Provided for the

Unemployed defines the self-employed person as someone ‘who provides

employment for him/herself outside of a dependent employment relationship,

including starting up a new business, or joining an existing business’; 367

- in the Act on Occupational Pensions, the notion of self-employed person covers both

private and corporate entrepreneurs;368 and

- the Labour Code does not include any explicit reference to self-employment.

8.1.4 Political and societal debate and pending legislative proposals

There have been no political or social debates, and there are no pending legislative

proposals on the topic of self-employment.

8.2 Implementation of Directive 2010/41/EU

Two Acts contain references to the transposition of Directive 2010/41/EU: the often-

modified Act on the Benefits of Compulsory Health Insurance369 and the Act CCXII of 2012

on the Amendment of Certain Acts on Healthcare.370 However, no specific legislation has

been enacted to transpose Directive 2010/41/EU.

8.3 Personal scope

8.3.1 Scope

The concept of a ‘self-employed’ person is elaborated in Hungarian law in a rather f ormal

and ambiguous way:

367 Act IV of 1991 on the Promotion of Employment and on Assistance Provided for the Unemployed (1991. évi

IV. törvény a foglalkoztatás elsegítésérl és a munkanélküliek ellátásáról), 23 February 1991.

368 Act CXVII of 2007 on Occupational Pensions and its Institutions (2007. évi CXVII. törvény a foglalkoztatói

nyugdíjról és intézményeirl), 26 October 2007.

369 Act LXXXIII of 1997 on the Benefits of Compulsory Health Insurance (1997. évi LXXXIII. törvény a kötelez

egészségbiztosítás ellátásairól), 25 July 1997.

370 Act CCXII of 2012 on the Amendment of Certain Acts on Healthcare (2012. évi CCXII. törvény az egyes

egészségügyi tárgyú törvények módosításáról), 17 December 2012.