nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230718-111026-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230718s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230718-111026-0 doi eng 342 23 Niebler, Valentin Author aut Tilting at Windmills? - To Really Be a Step Forward, the EU Directive Would Need to Address Loopholes Created Through Subcontracting Niebler, Valentin Verfassungsblog 2023-07-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The proposals for an EU Directive on platform work have been subject to much debate, and will continue to do so during the now announced trilogue negotiations in Brussels. What often remains blurry in this debate are the subjects of the legislation: Who is working on platforms? Are we talking about leisurely side arrangements, freelance entrepreneurs, or wrongly employed full-time earners? Empirically, we find a very broad spectrum of digital labour platforms, from online crowdworking platforms to the organisation of offline work such as care, repair or cleaning. This blog post examines the realities of platform labour and kicks off the new symposium 'Final Call for Digital Workers Rights in the EU'. CC BY-SA 4.0 gig work platform labour workers rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/tilting-at-windmills/ raw object