Knowledge sharing on Digital Labour Platform Policies and Case Law
Syndell Waleska Pineda Paz
In a constantly changing world of work, rights at work are confronted with many challenges. Digital labour platforms are a distinctive part of the digital economy. By connecting businesses and clients to workers, they are transforming labour processes, with major implications for the future of work. The exchange of experiences and the mutual learning between judges, lawyers and academics from different countries on ILS contribution in guiding the future decisions represent a source of inspiration at national level for strengthening the crucial judicial role in a changing world of work.
OBJECTIVES
The three-day debate aimed to provide a unique opportunity to analyse and discuss the implications and challenges brought about by the effects of the digital labour platforms on the current employment model and the consequent impact on decisions concerning the application of ILS and substantive rights for digital platform. Drawing on the guidance from International Labour Standards (ILS) and current case law at national level, the knowledge sharing series aimed at supporting a comparative analysis of case law ruling digital platform litigations.
CONTENT
During the three-day event participants had the opportunity to update knowledge and share experiences & case studies on the following topics:
Recent comparative studies at international level on the impact of digital labour platforms;
Effective implementation of relevant ILS;
International law and the platform economy: An analysis of four jurisdictions-Case studies from US, EU, Latin America;
Conflict of laws in digital economy and jurisdictional issues;
Comparative analysis of the trends, commonalities and differences worldwide.
NUMBER OF HOURS: 9