Contribution by Teresa Coelho Moreira, member of DIGILARE’s research team, and João Leal Amado, on the application by a Portuguese court of the presumption of employment status of digital platform workers in the Código do Trabalho (Article 12.º-A, n.º1).
Project members were present at the XXIV World Congress of the International Society of Labour and Social Security Law. A panel, with the title Information and Consultation in the Digital Era was organised in the framework of Topic 3. The new trends in the collective labour law; Subtopic: New forms of employment and collective labour…
Information and consultation rights also for non-employees? Which is the applicable law for information and consultation rights in a cross-border-telework context? Topics that were explored during the first transnational seminar of the DIGILARE (101126503) project on Digitalization of Industrial Labour Relations, funded by the European Union. During two days, from 6-7 June 2024, academics, social…
Contribution by project coordinator Elisabeth Brameshuber and Julia Höllwarth on the Proposal for a Directive on Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work, first published within the Austrian Journal ASoK (Arbeits- und Sozialrechtskartei).
Team members José María Miranda Boto and Lidia Gil Otero presented some aspects of the research in the XXXIV Annual Congress of the Spanish Society of Labour and Social Security Law in Mérida, on 31 May. The workshop was attended by researchers of more than 10 Spanish Universities, a Magistrate of the Supreme Court and…
A new research paper has been published by José María Miranda Boto and Elisabeth Brameshuber in the journal Bialystok Legal Studies / Białostockie Studia Prawnicze (2024, 2). Abstract: The unstoppable digitalisation of work also brings with it alterations at the collective level of labour relations. On the one hand, the dispersal of the workforce entails…
The EU Labor Force Survey shows that the overall proportion of people working fron home in the EU has more than doubled in the last few years, from 11.1% in 2019 to 20% in 2022. Telework brings many opportunities to the world of work, but also some challenges, While it can allow for flexible work…
On 24 April 2024, MEPs approved new rules aiming to improve the working conditions on platform workers. The Platform Work Directive, agreed on by the Parliament and the Council in February, and adopted with 554 votes in favour, 56 votes against and 24 abstentions, aim to ensure that platform workers have their employment status classified…
EU employment and social affairs ministers confirmed the provisional agreement reached on 8 February 2024 between the Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators on the platform work directive. The directive has two main objectives: On the one hand, addressing false self-employment in platform work. The agreed text strikes a balance between respecting national labour…
Last 1st and 2nd of February took place the first Steering Committee of the DIGILARE project, at the University Carlos III of Madrid. During two days of intense work, the first results of the theoretical analysis of the scope of application of information and consutlation rights in the EU Directives were presented to the team…