Social protection of remote workers and platform workers: transnational perspective
Abstract
Digital technologies have triggered an increase of remote work and platform work. New forms of work can be carried out from any place in the world linked to the internet. Hereby employer and employee, platform, platform worker and clients can be located in different countries. As a result, if platforms or clients would like to avoid taking over employer responsibility, they can always select a crowdworker from a country, which legislation does not provide labour and social guaranties for platform workers and which courts classify platform workers as self-employed. Concerning the EU, Regulation EC 883/2004 was adapted before the emergence of the platform economy and new forms of employment; it therefore presumes stable employ-
ment relations and a fix location of the self-employed or a fix place of work of the employee. The author analyses different options for a widening of the personal and territorial scope of Regulation EC 883/2004 as well as the pros and cons of the conflict of law rule “place of business of the undertaking or employer”.
Keywords:
platform work, crowdwork, remote home office, coordination of social security systems, conflict of law rule “place of business of the undertaking or employer”, conflict of law rule “lex loci laboris”, transnational labour flows caused by platform work
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