Ensure that the subjects who carry out their work through digital job platforms (including, for example, the so-called riders), can enjoy an adequate set of rights and social benefits. This is the objective of the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council which obtained the favorable opinion of the Senate Labor Commission.
The aim is to improve the conditions of those who work through digital platforms and to guarantee them a fair and equal treatment, preventing situations of abuse of atypical contracts. In particular, the proposal includes measures aimed at ensuring the correct determination of their contractual position, the promotion of transparency, fairness and accountability in the algorithmic management of their activity, and at improving the transparency of work also in cross-border situations, since the 59 percent of all people working via digital platforms in the EU interact with customers established in another country.
The proposal is currently being examined by 15 chambers of national parliaments of the European Union, which have not raised any critical issues regarding compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, except for the Swedish Parliament. The latter believes that the proposal does not sufficiently respect the diversity of the labor markets of the Member States and the autonomy of the social partners, and that there is a risk that the directive will have repercussions on both the tax and social insurance systems.
For our part, the government has expressed itself favorably with a report sent to the Labor commission of Palazzo Madama which affirms compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, with the national interest of the riders. The proposal, according to the executive, could make it possible to further strengthen the regulatory framework already in force on safeguards foreseen in the national legal system, integrating it with more precise information obligations for employers and with the introduction of monitoring and control tools, as well as with the involvement of the social partners.
And now the green light from the Senate.
