2024.05.07
Reshaping Work and Welfare in the Digital Age – WorkWel
WorkWel launches new approaches to “platformity” and asks the tricky questions of whether platform work disrupt the existing legal framework and, more fundamentally, whether it raises concerns in terms of social protection of its workers/providers.
Platform work is an atypical form of work in many respects, for example, because it is usually task-based, involves several partners, is dependent on technology and uses algorithms and big data. It risks increasing situations of precariousness of the workforce and rising inequalities within society. The objective of WorkWel is to analyse how this new type of organisation of work affects the regulation of labour and social security protection, their relationship and the problems, which flow from there. The meta-research question is thus the following: How disruptive is platform work for workplace governance and social security and how does it contribute to a rethinking of the central pillars of the welfare state?
- How disruptive is platform work for workplace governance and social protection from a comparative perspective and what can we learn from the comparison?
- How does the EU address this potential challenge for social Europe and what could be its role?
- What we can learn from this technological disruption in terms of reshaping the central pillars of the welfare state?
Platform work is a relatively new phenomenon and thus research is in its early age. WorkWel is motivated by the social protection of the platform workers. Conceptually, WorkWel distinguishes itself for its theoretical standpoint on the welfare state articulated around a work-social security nexus. It also focuses on the role that the EU could play and adopts a regulatory and institutional perspective. Institutions have indeed a strong impact on the extent of social protection, its exercise and how it can adapt to external and internal changes.
- 30 September 2024: Workshop on Algorithm Management, the Automatization of Welfare and Social Security
- 4 June 2024: WELMA Lunch seminar with Prof. Frans Pennings
- 30-31 May 2024: WorkWel Seminar on Platform Work and the Welfare State: Challenges and Opportunities. Click here for program.
- 12 June 2023: Lunch seminar on taking stock of the EU’s digital agenda
- 26 September 2022: Seminar on national perspectives on the EU platform work package
- ‘Platform work, social protection and flexicurity in Denmark’
Jacqueson, Catherine, 1 nov. 2021, I: International Social Security Review. - “I’LL CALL MY UNION”, SAID THE DRIVER – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING OF GIG WORKERS UNDER EU COMPETITION RULES
Bergqvist, Christian, Jacqueson, Catherine, Huffmann, M., Lind, Y. & Schmidt-Kessen, M. J., 2021, I: Europaraettslig Tidskrift. 2021, 2, s. 237 267 s. - Schoukens, P., Barrio, A., & De Becker, E. (2022). Platform economy and the risk of in-work poverty: A research agenda for social security lawyers. In De Stefano, V., Durri, I., et al. (eds.), A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 93-112.
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Barrio, Alberto, 2023, The Role of the EU in Adapting Social Law to the Digital Transformation of Work: Lessons learned from the proposed Directive on improving working conditions in platform work, I: Hungarian Labour Law E-Journal, 2023/1, 20-45.
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SOCIAL EUROPE AND THE EU PACKAGE PROTECTING PLATFORM WORK
Jacqueson, Catherine, okt. 2023, Pioneering social Europe - Liber Amicorum Herwig Verschueren. Die Keure, s. 161-169 9 s. Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt -
Barrio, A. (2024). Unemployment insurance for platform workers: Challenges and approaches from a comparative perspective. European Journal of Social Security, 26(2).
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Jacqueson, C. (2024). An effective protection against unemployment of self-employed and platform providers? The intriguing case of Denmark. European Journal of Social Security, 26(2).
New York – 30 June 2024 - Platform Work from a European Welfare Perspective – Alberto Barrio.
London UCL and Online - 14 June 2024 - Scope for Progress / The Future of Personal Work - Catherine Jacqueson
Brussels and Online - 6 June 2024 - Online Public Hearing on “Imbalances in social protection in general and specifically for the "new forms of work" and "atypical workers" - Catherine Jacqueson
Oxford - 9 May 2024 - Reshaping Welfare in the Digital Age: Algorithmic Challenges in the Platform Work Landscape | Oxford, Faculty of Law - Alberto Barrio
Amsterdam - January 2024 - The future of European social citizenship - EUSocialCit Conference Amsterdam
Warsaw – June 2023 - The potential social protection impact of the proposed Directive on improving working conditions in platform work – Alberto Barrio
Copenhagen – 9 May 2022 – MoveS Cross-Border Work and Social Security Protection – Alberto Barrio
Alberto Barrio - Social security coordination and platform work
Online seminar - 24 June 2022 - Social security coordination and platform work – Alberto Barrio
Alberto Barrio - Webseminar - Social security coordination and platform work
Lissabon – 22 June 2022 – Improving the working conditions of platform work – Catherine Jacqueson
Catherine Jacqueson - The Commission’s directive proposal on platform work – paradoxes and novelties
Bruxelles, ETUI – 14 February 2023 – The future of work: working with and through digital technology – Alberto Barrio
Alberto Barrio - Regulatory challenges under EU law: Lessons learnt from the proposed Directive on improving working conditions in platform work
Budapest - April 2023 - Decent work in the digital Age - Alberto Barrio
The role of the EU in adapting social law to the digital transformation of work
- Jacqueson, Catherine and Barrio, Alberto, 2024, At Last a Directive protecting platform work - Now what? EU Law Analysis, 26 April 2024
- Barrio, Alberto, 2023, A Hidden Battlefield: The Social Security Impact of the Proposed Directive on Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work, I: Verfassungsblog, 20 July 2023
Funding
Reshaping Work and Welfare in the Digital Age - WorkWel has received funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Project: Reshaping Work and Welfare in the Digital Age - WorkWel
(Research Project 118164)
Period: 1.1.2021 and runs at least until 30.9.2024
Contact
PI professor
Catherine Jacqueson
South Campus,
Building: 5C.2.09
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Phone: +45 35 32 35 97
E-mail: Catherine.Jacqueson@jur.ku.dk