From 8 to 12 May 2023, a group of four students of the Faculty of Law and Administration: Julia Grzybowska, Natalia Przewoźniak, Martyna Kaczmarek and Kamil Szostak, under the supervision of Prof. Michał Skąpski and Dr Jakub Gołasiak, attended an international seminar organised by the European Working Group on Labour Law and Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
This annual seminar titled 'Employment and Self-employment in Platform Work' focused on the fundamental challenges and regulatory issues of working via digital platforms. In reports and presentations, panellists covered areas such as the social, economic and legal implications of the growing popularity of employment in the platform economy, the typology of digital labour platforms, the classification of platform workers from the perspective of national labour law systems, the individual and collective rights of platform workers or the potential impact of the proposed Directive on Improving Platform Working Conditions on national labour law.
As part of the seminar, an international scientific conference was also held on 10 May 2023, where Dr Jakub Golas delivered a lecture entitled. "The problem of double subordination of food-delivery platform workers in Poland".
The European Working Group on Labour Law (EWLL:) is an international working group bringing together academics from leading European universities working in the field of individual and collective labour law. Among other, the group organises annual scientific seminars to analyse current legal and labour market issues in Europe. Each of the invited representatives presents national reports on a pre-selected topic. Subsequently, hybrid working groups are formed to produce and present comparative reports.
The texts of the national reports and seminar materials have been published on the EWLL website.
Source: AMU Faculty of Law and Administration
Photo credit: Heide Fest
