The Platform Work Directive

• Jurisdiction: European Union
• Year: 2024

Speaker

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is a Professor of Law at Magdalen College and the Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He studied law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School and has authored over 100 articles and books. His recent works include "Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy" (OUP 2018) and "Great Debates in EU Law" (Bloomsbury 2021).

His contributions have been recognized with several awards, including the Modern Law Review’s Wedderburn Prize, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize, and the 2020 Leverhulme Prize. Since April 2021, he has been leading a five-year interdisciplinary research project on Algorithms at Work, funded by the European Research Council.

Topic

The Platform Work Directive addresses the complexities of regulating the gig/platform economy within the European Union. This Directive aims to provide clarity and protection to individuals engaged in platform work, such as delivery riders and freelance workers, who often face ambiguous employment statuses and significant algorithmic management by platform operators.

Key aspects of the directive include defining employment status based on factual control indicators, which member states can interpret but must align with EU principles. It introduces innovative regulations on algorithmic management (ARM), ensuring transparency, human oversight, and rights to review decisions affecting workers. The directive emphasizes data protection...