The master’s thesis discusses the employment situation of persons performing labour through digital platforms. The first section starts with an introduction to the types of digital labour platforms and some common features, such as the use of digital technology to enable services, the outsourcing of service execution to independent contractors and the algorithmic management of work process. The main part of the thesis firstly analyses the existence of the defining elements of the employment relationship in platform work and presents a comparative law approach to the definition of the employment status of platform workers. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on collective rights and collective organization of platform workers, with illustrations from concrete practical examples. The last substantive part aims at placing platform work in an international legal context, by presenting the labour law standards as set by the International Labour Organisation, the European Union and the Court of Justice of the European Union through its jurisprudence.
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