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Casual Work Arrangements and Platform-Based Work: The Casual Work Agenda as a Way to Enhance the Labour Protection of Platform Workers

Casual Work Arrangements and Platform-Based Work: The Casual Work Agenda as a Way to Enhance the Labour Protection of Platform Workers

Author: Ilda Durri
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
ISBN: 9789403531076
Published In: August 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Casual Work Arrangements and Platform-Based Work is a trailblazing book offering in-depth research on specifically positioning platform work in the context of casual work arrangements. Platform work – in which work activities are channelled through web platforms or apps – has emerged as one of the major transitions in the world of work over the past decade. It presents several labour law issues related to casual work, often linked to insecure or precarious working conditions, such as unpredictable work schedules, an insecurity of work for the future, the lack of a stable income, and exclusion from even basic protections The author meticulously evaluates how strategies aimed at regulating casual work can be extended to enhance these insecure working conditions faced by platform workers.

What’s in this book:

In a nutshell, the issues and topics covered include the following:

what is captured under the label of casual work arrangements
the shared features between casual work and platform work, with a focus on their insecure working conditions
the employment status insecurity
the insecurity of working hours
the uncertainty of the continuity of employment
the income insecurity
peculiar traits of platform work
the development of the EU regulatory matrix on casual work
the relevance of the directives on working time, fixed-term work, and transparent and predictable working conditions, for the protection of platform workers, and
the improvement of the proposal for a Platform Work Directive in light of the above instruments

This compendium is a thorough comparative legal analysis of casual work in four industrialized countries – the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy – elucidating the divergent regulatory approaches to this work typology. Further, the book furnishes EU legislators’ efforts to establish a regulatory matrix on casual work, focusing on directives such as those on fixed-term work, working time, and transparent and predictable working conditions. The author sums it up with recommendations for redefining the EU legal initiative on platform work, in light of the national and EU legal instruments examined in this contribution. Issues, such as the insecure nature of work, unpaid standby time, and work insecurity, come to light.

How this will help you:

This vital book will aid policymakers and social partners to identify viable legal solutions to combat some of the labour protection challenges posed by platform work. At the same time, it will prove to be a reminder to EU policymakers that existing legal instruments on casual work constitute an available blueprint which could be beneficial in dealing with such regulatory difficulties. Finally, it will also provide legal scholars with an important insight into looking at platform work through the lens of casual work.

Funder Acknowledgement

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Casual Work in Four Industrialized Countries

CHAPTER 1. Defining Casual Work

CHAPTER 2. Zero-hours Contracts in the United Kingdom

CHAPTER 3. Lavoro Intermittente in Italy

CHAPTER 4. On-call Work in the Netherlands

CHAPTER 5. Intermittent Work in Belgium

CHAPTER 6. A Comparative Legal Analysis of Casual Work in the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium

PART II: Welcome to the World of Platform Work

CHAPTER 7. Singling Out the Idiosyncratic Features of Platform Work

PART III: The EU Agenda on Casual Work and Platform Work: ‘Connecting the Dots’ Between Past, Present, and Future Legal Developments

CHAPTER 8. The Past: The Pathway to a European Regulatory Approach to Casual Work

CHAPTER 9. The Importance of The Working Time Directive for the Working Time Security of Casual and Platform Workers

CHAPTER 10. The Relevance of the Fixed-term Work Directive for the Job Security of Casual and Platform Workers

CHAPTER 11. The Present: The Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive as an Endeavour to Counter the Insecure Working Conditions Experienced by Casual and Platform Workers

CHAPTER 12. The Future: The Proposal for an EU Directive on Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work and the Employment Security of Platform Workers

Bibliography

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation