🎙️ New #ETUIPodcast episode out now!
▶️ Counter-app: #PlatformWork is dangerous
In this episode of the Counter-app podcast, @benwray1989.bsky.social explores the health & safety risks behind platform work, from psycho-social hazards to the everyday realities workers face. ⚠️📱
🎧 Tune in: etui.org/439
I am advertising two postdoctoral researchers to join the team on the ERC-funded Live Platforms project - one in online creation and the other in location-based work. See the thread for more information. Do share and apply. Deadline is March 20 1/3 #jobfairy #postdoctoralresearch #platformwork
We welcome the decision to place Deliveroo’s Italian unit under judicial supervision. It shows how riders labeled “self-employed” can still face tight algorithmic control, low pay, & no protections. Strong #PlatformWork laws are essential to end exploitation & guarantee fair rights. 🔗
We reveal the variations in workers’ individual agentic responses to algorithmic management across six different platforms in India and also highlight the differences in such responses across various geographical contexts. 3/3 #platformwork #algorithmicmanagement #gigwork
This document examines the legal and regulatory landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic management (AM) in Spain, focusing on collective bargaining and judicial responses. Judicial Responses to AI and AM Landmark rulings have deemed dismissals linked to automation as unfair unless justified by prior business difficulties. Courts have upheld the use of algorithmic tools in some cases while ruling against their use in ways that undermine workers' rights, such as during strikes. Recent cases mandate transparency regarding algorithms affecting workers, reinforcing the right to access information about decision-making processes. Regulatory Developments Spain's regulatory framework for AI and AM is built on three pillars: platform work legislation, data protection law, and AI-specific regulations. The Rider Law (Law 12/2021) formalizes employment status for gig workers and enhances transparency regarding algorithmic systems affecting working conditions. Data protection laws, including the GDPR and Spain’s Organic Law on Data Protection, establish digital rights and limit employer surveillance. The draft law aligning with the EU AI Act introduces stricter obligations for high-risk AI systems and emphasizes transparency and worker rights. Collective Bargaining Trends Collective agreements are increasingly addressing AI and AM, with three main approaches: transposing legal requirements, broadening consultation duties, and expanding governance mechanisms. Several agreements are discussed: the Banking Sector Agreement, the Food Trade Agreement, the Just Eat Agreement.
#AlgorithmicManagement and artificial intelligence at work
Regulatory and #CollectiveBargaining trends from #Spain
Spain's regulatory framework for #AI and AM is built on 3 pillars: #platformwork legislation, data protection law, and AI-specific regulations
www.etui.org/publications...
„The work-related (in)securities of migrant platform workers: the case of food delivery in Warsaw, Poland” - new article by Kseniya Homel and @kam_matuszczyk from @iclaimeu project. Check out this and other articles in this issue on #platformwork
ustip-journal.com.pl/issue/17150
🆕Sweden’s official inquiry on implementing the EU #PlatformWork Directive is complete & now in the hands of Minister Britz!
The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
🧵(5/8) Who are “quasi-subordinate” gig workers in China?
Wei Tu & Xueyu Wang (@utoronto.ca) map economic dependency and subordination among delivery riders, finding most fall outside the employee/self-employed divide.
🔗 bit.ly/4bgJK90
#PlatformWork
Moving beyond narrow transparency debates, the report adopts a socio-technical lens to understand algorithms as sites of power—and lays out future-looking recommendations to redistribute power and control.
#PlatformWork #AlgorithmicManagement #FutureOfWork #LabourRights #DigitalEconomy #India
#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Riders on the road: An interface-centred analysis of the delivery platform workforce in Spain" in Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation by @cscolari.bsky.social, @jainamarguerrero.bsky.social, M. Piña & F. Pires #PLATCOM #platformwork www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
💭Stephanie Grasser (JUKUS) explores the ILO’s Global Policy Tracker, and why legislation alone doesn’t show whether workers are truly protected.
👉www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activ...
#PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #FutureOfWork #WorkerProtection
New report: even schools aren't safe from ‘Uberisation’ of the economy.
Solution: EU member states must end the exploitation of the platform employment model by fully enforcing the #PlatformWork Directive.
Read the full paper here: itforchange.net/sites/defaul...
#PlatformWork #GenderAndTechnology #FeministEconomy #InvisibleLabor #NationalGenderFellowship
📊 The ILO's Digital Labour Platform Tracker shows how countries regulate gig & platform work in real time.
🔗Check it out: digitallabour.ilo.org
#ILO #FutureOfWork #PlatformWork #GigEconomy #WorkerRights #LabourLaw
📢How can platforms design tech that protects worker dignity?
Find out in new blog by Dr. Sai Amulya Komarraju (@IIMAhmedabad), for InclusiveAILab & FemLab.Co.
👉www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activ...
#FutureOfWork #PlatformWork #Ethics
It can be difficult to keep track of the many developments happening with regard to #PlatformWork in the realms of policy, legislation and collective bargaining 🔍
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💭 Platform workers aren’t waiting for regulation, they’re organising.
Oğuz Alyanak (@UniofOxford) shows how workers use grassroots networks to build collective power.
📣 “Workers aren’t waiting for policy.”
👉 reshapingwork.net/ai-platforms...
#PlatformWork #WorkerVoice #ReshapingWork
FEPS-Nordic Digital Programme presented by @montyaal.bsky.social & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social
▶️In 2023-2024, it focused on #AlgorithmicManagement & #PlatformWork
▶️In 2025-2026, it looks at the #AI systems' use in the #PublicSector & trade union capacity building on digital technologies at work
Just Launched: Fairwork Indonesia 2025 Report
Caught in the Crossfire — This year’s report exposes persistently poor working conditions across major platforms in Indonesia. No platform scored above 2/10.
Explore the full findings now on our website:
buff.ly/dPS5GSX
#Fairwork #Indonesia #PlatformWork
Let’s open the black box, make algorithms transparent and ensure workers have a say in how they’re being used! Let’s negotiate the algorithms!
Check out our new manual: 👉 www.etuc.org/en/publicati...
#platformwork #platforum
@etuc-ces.bsky.social
📱 The problematic working conditions of #PlatformWork, and the more expansive use of the same #AlgorithmicManagement systems emerging across many workplaces
GDPoweR conference on #PlatformWork, collective bargaining and algorithmic management! 👉 lnkd.in/dFPMvjf2
🏦 12 September 2025, Warsaw, Zielna 37 Conference Centre
Conference agenda 👉 lnkd.in/d53v44NN
📣 New publication!
We're used to hearing about the prevalence of #PlatformWork in the food delivery and ride-hailing sectors 📱
But the platform economy has also been edging into #care and #cleaning, sectors that are of increasing importance as Europe's population ages 👵
Right2WorkNG has joined the Fairwork Pledge. Based in Nigeria, they advocate for fair conditions for informal and platform workers—while investing in youth labour education.
Discover their work: right2work.ng
Become a partner: fair.work/pledge
#Fairwork #GigEconomy #PlatformWork #Nigeria
From cleaners to couriers, babysitters to beauticians, millions of platform workers face insecure jobs, unpaid hours, no safety net, and higher risks of discrimination and violence — especially women.
The ILO now has a rare chance to set global rules for fair #PlatformWork.
🔗 buff.ly/J3zCdL3
Fairwork’s approach to platform accountability is now featured in Environment and Planning A.
The new article breaks down how action research can create real-world change for gig workers.
Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Fairwork #PlatformWork #ActionResearch #LabourRights
Fairwork Belgium 2024–2025 out now!
We evaluated 6 platforms across the country—and most still fall short on basic fairness.
Only 2 could show they pay minimum wage after costs.
Report: fair.work/en/fw/public...
#Fairwork #PlatformWork #GigEconomy
Journal of Industrial Relations (2025, Vol. 67, Issue 3) now out!
journals.sagepub.com/toc/JIR/current
#LaborStudies #IndustrialRelations #TransnationalOrganizing #PlatformWork #UnionResearch #WorkplaceEquity #SocialDialogue #GigEconomy #JIR
🎤 Meet Dr. Sai Amulya Komarraju from IIM Ahmedabad—our next speaker at the AI, Platforms & Future of Work conference!
Her work explores feminism, digital cultures & power in tech.
📅 Join us Sept 10
🔗 Free tickets: shorturl.at/uo3dc
#FutureOfWork #ReshapingWork2025 #PlatformWork #FeministStudies
Fairwork is featured in the UN’s latest report on AI and human rights!
Our research highlights how AI supply chains affect vulnerable workers—and why fair AI must start with fair work.
Read the report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
#Fairwork #AI #HumanRights #PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #UN
