Parliament adopts Platform Work Directive
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 correctly and to correct bogus self-employment. They also regulate, for the first time ever in the EU, the use of algorithms in the work place.
The agreed text will now have to be formally adopted by the Council, too. After its publication in the Official Journal of the EU, member states will have two years to incorporate the provisions of the directive into their national legislation.