The ride is over – towards decent work in the gig-economy

Ensuring decent working conditions in the gig-economy has been one of the key regulatory challenges of the past decade. The European Union has led on that challenge with the adoption of Directive 2024/2831, now only one year away from its transposition deadline of December 2026.

The UK is not affected by this process, but Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay, promised to ‘to promote best practice in safeguarding against the invasion of privacy through surveillance technology, spyware and discriminatory algorithmic decision making’ and to ‘ensure workers in precarious and gig-economy sectors have a meaningful right to organise through trade unions, modernising rules to ensure they are fit for an economy with growing platform sectors’.

This is happening while, in Geneva, discussions on a possible ILO Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy are well under way.

Join this hybrid event organised by the UCL Labour Rights Institute to hear from a group of leading labour and social law experts, discussing a range of aspects of the regulatory puzzle surrounding platform work. The participants have jointly authored a special issue of the European Labour Law Journal dedicated to the analysis of Directive 2024/2831.

Participants:

Astrid Sanders (LSE); Silvia Rainone (ETUI); Catherine Jacqueson (University of Copenhagen); Halefom Abraha (Utrecht University); Antonio Aloisi (IE University); Anne Joppe (Utrecht University); Eva Kocher (European University Viadrina); Joanna Bronowicka (European University Viadrina); Alberto Barrio (University of Copenhagen); Malcolm Katrak (Jindal Global Law School); Zahra Yusifili (University of Luxembourg); Annika Rosin (University of Turku); Henni Parviainen (University of Turku); Jeremias Prassl (University of Oxford); Valerio De Stefano (Osgoode Hall Law School); Nicola Countouris (UCL)

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