Veranstaltung
Workshop: "Regulating Work in the Platform Economy: Paths, Strategies, and Challenges" in Duisburg
20.03.2026
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Platform work is a growing phenomenon in European labour markets and poses huge challenges for existing labour market institutions and labour regulation. Spatial fragmentation and the loss of physical workplaces, new forms of work organization and work control including ratings, rankings, and algorithmic management, hybrid work and employment forms as well as the widespread use of independent contracting have kept platform work outside the scope of traditional modes of labour regulation – be it with respect to labour law, national legislation, or social dialogue. While a cat-and-mouse-game between legislators and the powerful platform companies has been constitutive for the (de-)institutionalization of work in the platform economy from the very beginning, there have been increasing attempts of platform work regulation by national and supranational legislators and unions in recent years. In this regard, the EU Platform Work Directive (PWD) is considered a landmark of platform work regulation, aiming at enlarging labour rights both for employed and self-employed workers performing platform work. However, its transposition remains contested and contingent, posing challenges for national legislators in ensuring both a sustainable transfer into national law and effective enforcement mechanisms.
Against this background, the workshop “Regulating Work in the Platform Economy: Paths, Strategies, and Challenges” by the Issue Network “Platforms – Work – Regulation” of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS) brings together academic experts in research on platform work and platform work regulation in order to discuss recent research findings and insights from a variety of European contexts of work in the platform economy. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, including vulnerable groups of platform workers and precarious platform work segments, national regulatory attempts by legislators, unions’ strategies in regulating platform work, as well as challenges in adjusting social security schemes to the needs of workers in the platform economy. In the workshop, participants are welcome to discuss the current state of art in platform work research as well as academic and policy challenges of future platform work regulation.
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Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 12. März 2026 unter folgendem Link für die Veranstaltung an.
