The master's thesis is limited to examining issues that have emerged in the area of labor law due to the rise of the collaborative economy. The purpose of this thesis was to present the problems of the position of workers brought by the collaborative economy and the use of online platforms for providing work. The flexibility of work offered by online platforms can offer unemployed people the opportunity to earn money, offer employees extra income, open more opportunities for self-employed people to choose working hours and their employers, and also offer the possibility of additional income to other groups such as students, parents on maternity leave and seniors, and above all opens the door to a wider global job offer. At the same time, the emergence of a collaborative economy and work through online platforms raises problems in the areas of working time, pay, health and social rights and collective rights of workers, and the extension of precariousness and information asymmetry in working relationships. Workers all over the world that are working through online platforms face the challenge of how to describe and subsume their relationship with employers, as technology and new forms of work no longer correspond with traditional definitions of employment relationships. Some market participants, owing to the nature and circumstances of the work they do, should be entitled to labor protection, but the boundary between defining a relationship as an employment or as a contractual relationship with a self-employed worker is no longer clear. I am trying to present different ways of distinguishing between a dependent worker and an independent self-employed person, as well as other ways of regulating and attributing employment protection, such as introducing the category of economically dependent person and the functional concept of an employer.
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