In Strasbourg on the evening of Monday, 12 December, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment (EMPL) finally gave Elisabetta Gualmini, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the directive on digital platform workers, a comfortable majority.
By 41 votes to 12 (some ECR and EPP MEPs as well as one Renew Europe MEP—Abir Al-Sahlani of Sweden—voted against it), MEPs thus supported the agreement that had been reached with shadow rapporteurs in early December. The...