ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. Six Silberman

M. Six Silberman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, studying the regulation of algorithmic management in the ERC-funded ‘iManage’ Project with colleagues Sangh Rakshita, Dr Halefom Abraha, and PI Jeremias Adams-Prassl. Silberman was previously a trade union official and software engineer.

POSTS BY M. Six Silberman

18 July 2023

M. Six Silberman

The Definition of ‘Digital Labour Platform’ in the Proposed Platform Work Directive

On 9 December 2021, the European Commission announced its proposal for a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work—the ‘Platform Work Directive.’ The Directive’s main goals are to reduce false self-employment among persons performing platform work, to regulate algorithmic management on digital labour platforms, and to provide legal certainty for platforms. This blog post focuses on an element of the proposed Directive that has gone relatively unremarked in the scholarly and policy debates so far: the definition of ‘digital labour platform.’ Continue reading >>