Leïla Chaibi MEP (GUE/NGL, France), coordinator of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, presented a proposal for a directive to better protect digital platform workers to Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit on Monday 16 November.
“The meeting with the Commissioner went very well: we agreed on the need to avoid the creation of a ‘third status’ (a status between employee and self-employed - editor’s note), which has been loudly...