Abstract
This article highlights one aspect of technological evolution which impacts the labour market and, consequently, our labour law systems: the advent of so-called labour platforms, entailing disintermediation in the matching of supply and demand for labour. It examines the prospects for the future development of instruments aimed at ensuring that platform workers obtain a minimum level of adequate occupational, financial and welfare security.
Highlights
How new technologies, and the gig economy, impact the standard structure of employment relations: the effects of reducing transaction costs
The so-called labour platform is a typical tool for the reduction of such intermediation costs: a virtual place accessible through electronic networks, where each provider can be contacted at any time by someone interested in the available service, can be hired and paid, on the basis of an individual negotiation or a standard fee set by the platform manager
Since the first decades of the 20th century, most European legislative systems have been oriented towards assuming as an essential element of the case to which labour law applies the full subordination of work performance to the executive power of the employer – the Coasian soul, so to speak, of the contract of employment – placing instead the insurance content, its Knightian soul, among the mandatory effects of the contract identified
Summary
The gig economy, impact the standard structure of employment relations: the effects of reducing transaction costs. Since the first decades of the 20th century, most European legislative systems have been oriented towards assuming as an essential element of the case to which labour law applies the full subordination of work performance to the executive power of the employer – the Coasian soul, so to speak, of the contract of employment – placing instead the insurance content, its Knightian soul, among the mandatory effects of the contract identified.
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