Digital Platforms and Labor Rights

Standards, Reality, and Proposals in the International, EU and Spanish Spheres

Abstract

This article deals with the regulation of labour rights, both individual and collective, of those who provide their services in platform economy companies, more specifically in offline platforms. It focuses, on the one hand, on determining the legal nature of the salaried or self-employed contractual relationship of workers, with a review of doctrinal contributions of undoubted interest, and reviews the regulation projects at the international level (ILO), and the existing EU legislation (Directive 2024/2831) and pending transposition into domestic law, ending with some brief notes on the different responses given to the legal conflict in Spain by the social and contentious-administrative jurisdiction.