The EU Platform Work Directive 2024: Directive - EU - 2024/2831 - EN - EUR-Lex - lays down minimum standards for every person performing platform work in the EU (million workers) to seek to establish, on the basis of the facts, their correct employment status and, more generally, to provide strict rules for the surveillance of platform workers and require human oversight of certain decisions taken by means of algorithmic management to ensure fairness, safety and accountability. This includes extending the reach of the General Data Protection Regulation in the context of persons performing platform work. It also provides greater transparency with regard to platform work. The Directive must be transposed into the laws of the Member States by 2 December 2026. In this seminar the effectiveness of the Directive as a means to achieve these outcomes will be assessed along with, firstly, its wider impact on the labour market, including in the UK, and, secondly, economic and social integration.
Jeff Kenner is Professor of European Law at the University of Nottingham and a leading expert on EU employment law. He has advised the European Commission and cooperated with IEL Director Professor Martin Trybus on the EU funded EU Trade and Investment Policy (EUTIP) project led from Birmingham.
