The master’s thesis focuses on platform work analysis in terms of the risks of precariousness and discusses possible solutions and measures to reduce these risks. Special attention is paid to the question of the existence of an employment relationship between platform worker and digital labour platform, as well as to the impact of digitalisation on the legal nature of relationships and on working conditions.
While platform work creates new opportunities on the labour market, it also poses a threat to the concept of decent work. Research data shows that platform workers are generally exposed to many risks of precariousness. In order to reduce precariousness, it is particularly important to ensure that individuals who work through digital labour platforms have correct employment status and access to appropriate and effective labour law protection. Possible measures to achieve this goal are the enhancement of labour inspection control, the promotion of social dialog and the adjustment of existing regulation to the special characteristics of platform work. At the EU level the Commission’s proposal for a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work is now being discussed. The proposal introduces two key measures – the rebuttable presumption of an employment relationship between platform and worker and the establishment of rules on the use of the artificial intelligence and related rights, that should be (at least to some extent) guaranteed to all persons performing platform work, regardless of their employment status.
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