In a tweet on Monday 12 June, the S&D group in the European Parliament, which counts Italian rapporteur Elisabetta Gualmini as a member, cautiously welcomed the agreement reached the previous day in the Council of the EU on the directive on workers on digital platforms (see EUROPE B13199A1), saying that the Member States’ mandate was “far from our position and our ambition”, while the Parliament had removed the mandatory criteria for triggering the presumption of salaried status.