Electronic Self-employment: International Practice and Regulation Features

Abstract

The article examines the problems of legal regulation of electronic self-employment. Currently, due to the development of information technologies and the emergence of the information society, socio-economic prerequisites are being created for the massive spread of a new form of employment – electronic self-employment. The authors highlight the analysis of the regulatory component and social problems that currently arise in this direction as a goal. The authors show the history of the development of this form of employment and note the economic and social prerequisites for its emergence and spread in the world economy. The paper describes the advantages and disadvantages and actualizes the issue of the development of the regulatory framework of electronic self-employment as a special form of employment. The existing international experience of legal regulation has been considered. Until now, electronic self-employment has practically been not regulated and is the subject of various disputes, since the decisions made, according to the authors, have not yet been able to solve the tasks set. The main conclusion of the article is the statement of the problem and the justification of the need for further improvement of the legal regulation of this phenomenon in the structure of the labor market. The authors, relying on international experience, propose a solution to the problem of bringing electronic self-employment out of the shadows through the provision of legal guarantees for the protection of the economic rights and interests of self-employed persons.