The EU social pillar: An answer to the challenge of the social protection of platform workers? - Paul Schoukens, Alberto Barrio, Saskia Montebovi, 2018
With atypical work gaining popularity, platform work seems to combine all the elements which, by deviating significantly from the standard employment relationship, challenge social security systems. After an overview of the features of the standard employment relationship and the different ways in which non-standard forms of work diverge from them, the article focuses on the nature of platform work. It then analyses how platform work is regulated in five European social security systems (i.e.