On Wednesday 14 July, MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) adopted (44 votes to 2, 8 abstentions) an own-initiative report by Sylvie Brunet (Renew Europe, France), which expressly asks the European Commission to present a legislative initiative to regulate digital platform workers at European level.
The reversal of the burden of proof is the European Parliament’s emblematic demand. In the event of a dispute between a worker and a digital...