Panel: Regulation of Platform Work in the EU - The Way Ahead
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A panel of EU and industry leaders discusses how platform work should be regulated across the EU, focusing on addressing severe IT skills shortages (137,000 vacant IT jobs in Germany), boosting workforce participation, upskilling employees and career-changers, and attracting domestic and international talent. The conversation covers organisational resilience and sustainability measures (health and diversity management), New Work transformations of work and leadership culture, future skills, and the impact of emerging technologies such as the metaverse on the workplace.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Regulation panel
- 1:27Digital labor platforms
- 2:53Yum Day’s model
- 7:26Malat’s marketplace
- 9:34Worker priorities
- 13:30Why companies use platforms
- 15:15EU directive overview
- 15:58MEP Miriam Lexmann
- 18:28Self-employment in EU
- 21:17Freelancers and digital change
- 24:09Directive’s self-employment rules
- 29:53Rebuttable presumption concerns
- 32:21Employment status criteria
- 36:00Yum Day’s fair proposal
- 38:06Q&A on bureaucracy
- 41:20Directive impact on platform work
