(Finance) – White smoke (after the stop last December) of the EU institutions on the EU directive for platform workers, as the rapporteur of the text for the European Chamber, the MEP, says via Elisabetta Gualmini, member of the Pd. The numberswhere measures – developed to improve the working conditions of workers such as riders and drivers who work for giants of the digital economy – they should interest one audience of over 30 million workers in Europe.
The aim of the directive is to ensure that i rider and drivers and other workers of the new digital apps have their employment status recognised, thus avoiding cases of fictitious self-employment.
The new rules introduce a presumption of an employment relationship (as opposed to self-employment) which is triggered in the presence of elements that indicate control and direction. The burden of proof will be on the platform, which means that when the platform wants to rebut the presumption, it is up to it to prove that the contractual relationship it is not an employment relationship
The agreed text also introduces the first European rules on use of artificial intelligence in the workplace: ensuring, for example, that a person cannot be fired based on a decision made by an algorithm or automated decision-making system. The platforms will in fact have to guarantee human control over important decisions that influence directly on workers.