Description
The National Council of the Slovak Republic (Národná rada SR) officially passed the Act on Work Performed through Digital Labour Platforms on 23 September 2026, establishing a dedicated legislative framework to transpose EU Directive 2024/2831 into national law.
President Peter Pellegrini signed the Act on 14 October 2026. It takes effect on 2 December 2026.
The legislation introduces a legal presumption of employment status based on national Labour Code indicators of dependent work, alongside new algorithmic management protections and mandatory administrative reporting obligations for platforms. It applies to all on-location and online platform work performed in Slovakia, regardless of where the platform or intermediary (sprostredkovateľ) is legally registered or which country's law governs the contract.
The Slovak draft links the rebuttable presumption directly to the criteria for "dependent work" under the Labour Code. Rather than using a fixed numerical quota, the legal presumption of an employment relationship triggers when a worker demonstrates facts pointing to subordination, direction, and work performed according to platform instructions, The burden of proof shifts to the platform to prove genuine self-employment in court.
Regarding algorithmic management, the bill incorporates the Directive's mandates on human oversight, requiring that decisions to restrict, suspend or cancel a worker's account, to restrict or suspend their ability to work, or to change or terminate the contract be taken by a natural person. It explicitly bans the processing of sensitive personal data, including workers' emotional or mental states, health data, trade union activity, and private communications.
The bill also mandates risk assessments for algorithmic management (psychosocial, ergonomic, and accident risks). Platforms must provide channels to report violence and harassment to a designated contact person.
On subcontracting and intermediaries, the draft explicitly covers all platform work performed in Slovakia regardless of where the platform is registered or whether the relationship is routed through an intermediary firm or fleet agency. It does not introduce a subcontracting ban, but the platform and the intermediary are jointly and severally liable for breaches of the rules on data processing, transparency, human oversight and human review.
Non-employee platform workers gain the explicit right to form and join trade unions and to exercise their rights under the Act through a union. Platforms must provide secure digital channels within their app for worker-to-worker and union communication. Retaliation or account termination for exercising statutory rights is strictly prohibited.
Platforms must notify the National Labour Inspectorate, which keeps a register, at the latest on the day they start operating in Slovakia. They must report every six months the number of platform workers by level of activity and type of contract, and provide on request the average duration of activity, average weekly hours and average income of regular platform workers.
- Keywords
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algorithmic management,
employment status,
regulatory changes
- Actors
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Government
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On November 11th 2024, the new EU directive 2024/2831 on improving working conditions in platform work was published in the Official Journal of the EU. It ented into force on …
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Slovakia is transposing Directive (EU) 2024/2831 via a dedicated standalone law, the Act on Work Performed through Digital Labour Platforms. The legislation introduces a legal presumption of employment status based …
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