Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) MEPs significantly strengthened the Directive's provisions on transparent and predictable working conditions, in particular by extending its scope to cover on-demand and ‘zero hours’ contract workers, platform workers and the self-employed, and by strengthening worker protection in general, in a vote by a comfortable majority (30 votes in favour, 7 against, 11 abstentions) on Thursday 18 October.
There was no shortage of dividing points,...