In a joint letter ETUC, CECOP, European Youth Forum and Solidar appeal to the European institutions for an effective Directive on improving working conditions in platform work. Whereas some digital labour platforms operate with genuine self-employed workers, many digital labour platforms nevertheless exert the prerogatives of employers and still present themselves as digital marketplaces which only facilitate the offer and demand between an undertaking and a client. Competitiveness should not come from downward pressure on labour rights.
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