Platform economy database
Database of initiatives and court cases in the EU
Eurofound’s platform economy database provides information on 386 initiatives and court cases that exist or have been implemented in relation to activities in the platform economy. The database was last updated in February 2024 and provides metadata for each entry, such as geographical scope, year, type of initiative, actors involved, sector and companies concerned. Initiatives include legal instruments such as legislative changes or court decisions, as well as voluntary interventions undertaken by different stakeholders to address issues around platform work.
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A court in Utrecht has ruled that workers on digital platforms such as Getir or Flink are covered by the collective agreement for the supermarket sector.
The court decision affects digital platforms that provide supermarket deliveries, in particular Getir, Flink, Picnic and Gorillas. The court has found that riders and drivers carrying out deliveries for these online supermarkets as well as store pickers are covered by the sector-level supermarket collective labour agreement, and not the e-commerce collective labour agreement, as the platforms have argued.
The court argues that the differences between the business models of these online supermarkets are too slim in comparison to those of other supermarkets to consider them separately. Thus, additional benefits such as evening or Sunday allowances now apply to the workers. Moreover, the court ruling must be applied retroactively, from September 13, 2022, to July 01, 2023.
The organisation that represents grocery delivery platforms, E-Commerce Netherlands, announced that they will appeal the court ruling.
On 03 December 2021, an employers organisation to represent the e-commerce sector in the Netherlands, E-commerce Nederland, has officially been established. The aim behind the organization is to jointly promote …
The platform economy is one of those moving targets, which, despite receiving increasing media and policy attention, has proven difficult to regulate. Given the heterogeneity of employment relationships, business models, types of platform work and cross-border issues, this is not surprising.
Technological change is accelerating as the capacity of electronic devices to digitally store, process and communicate information expands. Digitalisation is transforming the EU economy and labour markets: nearly one-third of EU workplaces are categorised as highly digitalised. What are the implications of the digital revolution for employment and work?
The rapid rise of the platform economy has led to a marked transformation of European labour markets, and existing regulatory frameworks and voluntary initiatives have yet to catch up. While platform work offers opportunities for workers and employers and potentially contributes to innovation, economic growth and competitiveness in the EU, it has been criticised from the beginning because of the poor employment and working conditions often experienced by workers.
While 2020 may come to be seen as the year platform work gathered pace and started to go mainstream – thanks in large part to COVID-19 containment measures sparking an increase in food and grocery delivery – 2021 could be the year that regulation of platform work is set in motion.
