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oapen-20.500.12657-588852022-10-15T03:28:03Z Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy Miranda Boto, José María Brameshuber, Elisabeth platform economy gig workers digitalisation digital platforms employment status trade unions ILO ETUI ETUC European Social Charter European Committee of Social Rights litigation collective agreements labour protection collective labour rights regulation migrant workers zero-hours work algorithmic decision-making crowdwork soft law enforceable rights GDPR self employment bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNH Employment & labour law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNQ IT & Communications law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNC Company, commercial & competition law::LNCH Competition law / Antitrust law This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries, either at company or at branch level. Offline workers such as riders, food deliverers, drivers or providers of cleaning services are slowly gaining access to the series of negotiated rights that, in the past, were only available to employees. The chapters analyse recent high-profile decisions including Uber in France’s Court de Cassation, Glovo in the Spanish Supreme Court, and Uber in the UK Supreme Court. They evaluate the bargaining agents in different Member States of the EU, to determine whether established actors are participating in the dynamics of the gig economy or if they are being substituted, totally or partially, by new agents. Interesting best practices are drawn from the comparison, also as regards the contents of collective bargaining, raising awareness in those countries that are being left behind in the dynamics of the gig economy. The book collects the results of the COGENS (VS/2019/0084) research project, funded by the European Union, that gathered scholars and stakeholders from 17 countries. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars, trade unionists and policy makers. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2022-10-14T14:55:34Z 2022-10-14T14:55:34Z 2022 book ONIX_20221014_9781509956210_216 9781509956210 9781509956203 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58885 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781509956210.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Hart Publishing 10.5040/9781509956227 10.5040/9781509956227 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781509956210 9781509956203 Hart Publishing 320 London open access
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This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries, either at company or at branch level. Offline workers such as riders, food deliverers, drivers or providers of cleaning services are slowly gaining access to the series of negotiated rights that, in the past, were only available to employees. The chapters analyse recent high-profile decisions including Uber in France’s Court de Cassation, Glovo in the Spanish Supreme Court, and Uber in the UK Supreme Court. They evaluate the bargaining agents in different Member States of the EU, to determine whether established actors are participating in the dynamics of the gig economy or if they are being substituted, totally or partially, by new agents. Interesting best practices are drawn from the comparison, also as regards the contents of collective bargaining, raising awareness in those countries that are being left behind in the dynamics of the gig economy. The book collects the results of the COGENS (VS/2019/0084) research project, funded by the European Union, that gathered scholars and stakeholders from 17 countries. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars, trade unionists and policy makers. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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