SOCIAL AFFAIRS / Social

Nicolas Schmit believes we must not fall into trap of defining status of digital platform workers

Brussels, 01/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 30 November, during a debate on the future directive to protect digital platform workers, the European Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, told MEPs on the European Parliament’s ‘Committee on Employment and Social Affairs’ (EMPL) that it is important to avoid focusing too much on a definition of their status.

In advance of a directive to protect platform workers due to be adopted in the last quarter of 2021, many MEPs insisted on a European...