MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) gave a mixed reception, on Thursday 19 May, to the report by the Italian MEP, Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D), on digital platform workers, with some fearing that the directive would indiscriminately cover all platform workers and reclassify them as ‘salaried workers’ from the outset.
This was the Socialist MEP’s first presentation of her report (see EUROPE B12949A23), which has three main objectives, she...