CALL FOR PROPOSALS - The right to (digital) platform work: Is everybody welcome on board?

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - The right to (digital) platform work: Is everybody welcome on board?

The Future of Work

What does the future hold for work and workers? How do new technologies reconfigure the relationship between employees and employers?

Working in/for Platforms International Conference

Join us on February 15-16, 2024, for the Working in/for platforms International Conference, which brings together a vibrant and global community of media, communication, education, and platform researchers. The conference is organized as a part of the dissemination activities of PLATCOM, a project that involves researchers from 9 Spanish universities. The Working in/for Platforms International Conference is a face-to-face event (only keynotes will be streamed) that accepts only full English papers. The main objective of the conference is to share research outcomes and practices around the following topics: Platform capitalism Labour / Workforce Gig economy New Taylorism Informal learning Skills acquisition Reputation Data / Algorithms Platformization Last mile workers On-demand services Precarity Platform activism Working in/for Platforms International Conference will be held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, and will host two days of paper sessions, round tables, and keynotes. We hope you can join us! The PLATCOM project has received funding from MINCINN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación  - Ref. PID2019-109846RB-I00).   Venue Poblenou Campus - Pompeu Fabra University C/Roc Boronat, 138 08018 Barcelona How to arrive ● Subway: Line 1 (red) GLÒRIES ● Tram: T4 Line GLÒRIES (Ca l’Aranyó) or T5 and T6 Lines GLÒRIES (La Farinera) ● Bus Lines: H14, 7, 92, V25 For more information about the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Poblenou Campus clik here. 

Dutch Supreme Court delivers landmark decision: Deliveroo riders are employees

On 24 March 2023, the Supreme Court delivered a long-awaited ruling on the employment status of Deliveroo riders, upholding an earlier decision by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal that Deliveroo riders qualify as employees. In its ruling, the Supreme Court emphasises that all circumstances should be weighed in the assessment of whether an employment agreement exists. Although the riders had a certain freedom to work whenever they wanted and to be replaced by someone else, which are typically elements of a contract for services, all other circumstances lead to the conclusion that the riders were in fact employees. The Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal rightly and not incomprehensibly attached minor importance to the riders having the possibility to have someone replace them, as in practice they only did so occasionally. The Supreme Court refrains from formulating new general rules for assessing if a worker is self-employed or an employee, as legislation on this topic is currently in the making, at both the national and the European level.