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EU: Rights for platform workers: Council agrees its position

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 06/12/2023 - 15:30

consilium.europa.eu (12.06.2023) The Council is ready to start negotiations with the European Parliament on a new law that will help millions of gig workers gain access to employment rights. Today, ministers for employment and social affairs agreed on the Council’s general approach for a proposed directive to improve working conditions for platform workers. The proposal introduces two key improvements: it helps determine the correct employment status of people working for digital platforms and establishes the first EU rules on the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

Regions / Country
european union
Topics
Employment status
Transparency of working rules
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Digital plateform workers
Document Type

At the mercy of the algorithm – Work and digitalisation

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 03/30/2023 - 16:24

 IPS Journal (24.03.2023) Excessive reliance on algorithmic management has raised concerns regarding its opaque decision-making mechanisms and implication for workers

Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Document Type

Platform workers need stronger legal protection – Work and digitalisation

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 03/28/2023 - 16:06

IPS Journal (21.01.2023) This year will be a crucial year for the platform economy. After the European Commission’s proposal on improving working conditions in platform work in December 2021 and long discussions in the European Parliament and Council in 2022, this year, the directive might be finally adopted – potentially impacting the lives of millions.

Regions / Country
Europe
Topics
Extension of coverage
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Document Type

Poor quality online work more prevalent in low-opportunity EU regions

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 03/28/2023 - 15:57

euobserver.com (08.03.2023) A new report published by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) highlights how platform work could be exacerbating inequality growing in the European labour market, and especially within member states themselves. Basically, it examined if regions with low availability of quality offline jobs led to more people taking more precarious online jobs. In the volatile and crisis-ridden European economic context, online work has grown in popularity through the adoption of technology that can help organise work, and manage and monitor workers.

Regions / Country
Europe
Global challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms

EU: Platform workers are becoming more and more commonplace

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 03/28/2023 - 15:45

europeandatajournalism.eu (27.03.2023) Delivery, transport, but also business services: more and more workers are opting for self-employed status by using online platforms to obtain assignments. This is a common phenomenon throughout the European Union.

Regions / Country
Europe
Topics
Extension of coverage
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Document Type

New Free Digital Software to Manage Health and Social Protection Programs

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 03/21/2023 - 16:25

openimis.org (20.03.2023) The World Bank, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) have announced an integrated new open-source software package to improve the management of social protection and health financing schemes in low- and middle-income countries.  The new software combines the openIMIS initiative, financed by Germany and Switzerland, with the World Bank`s digital platform CORE-MIS.

Global challenges
Topics
Data management
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
Document Type

Digital innovations in delivering social protection in rural areas: Lessons for public provisioning during the post-pandemic recovery and beyond

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 16:28

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) (31.12.2022) Over the past 20 years, considerable progress has been made in reducing poverty worldwide, with the expansion of social protection coverage and uptake playing a key role. To strengthen and expand the public provision of social protection, countries have been investing in the development of robust delivery systems, including digital tools, especially identification and payment systems and social registries.

Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Service delivery
Document Type

Making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:19

European Social Policy Network (ESPN)europa.eu (31.01.2023) “Transparency” of social protection systems is essential for people's awareness of their rights and obligations concerning social protection and enables them to take informed decisions. It requires, in particular, that countries provide full information on social protection schemes, and also that they simplify, wherever needed and to the extent possible, access rules and administrative requirements linked to these schemes.

Regions / Country
european union
Global challenges
Topics
Information and communication technology
Digital inclusion
Service quality
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Service delivery
Document Type

Improving conditions for gig workers splits MEPs

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 15:49

euobserver.com (19.01.2023) Self-employed or employed? This question is at the heart of the negotiations of the proposal for an EU directive on improving the conditions of platform workers.

Home-delivery riders, or Uber-style app drivers are some of those who compose a sector estimated by the EU Commission to employ more than 28 million people. The number has been growing for years, and is expected to keep rising, reaching 43 million workers in the next two years.

Regions / Country
european union
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Digital Economy Observatory : Only Tags
Document Type

EU Parliament adopts position on platform workers directive

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 15:45

EURACTIV.com (02.02.2023) After months of arduous negotiations, the much-debated and politically sensitive platform workers’ file was finally approved in plenary on Thursday (2 February), with 376 in favour and 212 against. The text enshrines a legal presumption of employment for self-employed platform workers and reinforces workers’ rights and protection in the face of algorithmic management.

Regions / Country
european union
Global challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Document Type