Date
22 January 2021

Tag

Active

Countries
Non-EU, EU 27 EU 27
Geographical scope
Cross-border
Type
  • Type

    Awareness raising, campaigns, information provision

    Voluntary
  • Type

    Code of conduct, standards

    Voluntary
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Description

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

The Fairwork Foundation collaborates with workers, trade unions, platforms, and policymakers to develop core principles of fair work and undertakes research to evaluate whether platforms meet those standards. Additionally, the foundation aims to create a certification scheme, reduce the information asymmetry between workers, firms and consumers, and improve the working conditions of people employed in the platform economy. Additionally, the foundation has created a certification scheme for platforms in India and South Africa, assigning scores in the areas of pay, conditions, contracts, management and representation to platforms. As a result, each platform is given a score out of a maximum of 10 points. The foundation also aims to reduce the information asymmetry between workers, firms and consumers, and improve the working conditions of people employed in the platform economy.


Additional metadata

Keywords
income, information asymmetry
Actors
Other
Sector
No specific sector focus

Citation

Eurofound (2021), Fairwork Foundation (Initiative), Record number 3052, Platform Economy Database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/platformeconomydb/fairwork-foundation-103082.