A coalition of transport, hotel, metal and engineering companies wrote to MEPs on Thursday 3 November to ask them to review what its representatives call the “excessive” definition of digital platforms, which could encompass all of their workers.
“We are not platforms”, they wrote, saying they are “deeply concerned” about discussions underway in the European Parliament to classify “essentially all businesses in the EU as ‘digital platforms’ and, hence, massively reclassify...