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Annamaria Westregård

Associate professor, Director of third cycle studies Department of Business Law

Portrait of Annamaria Westregård. Photo.

Digital Collaborative platforms: A challenge for both the Legislator and the Social Partners in the Nordic Model

Author

  • Annamaria Westregård

Summary, in English

This paper focuses on the specific problems in the labour and social security legislation as it relates to crowdworkers in the digitalised new economy, analysing their place in labour market, and especially in the collective agreements which are the standard means of regulating working conditions in the Nordic model. Sweden has a binary system where a performing party is as either an employee or self-employed. The law on working and employment conditions offers only limited protection to those on short, fixed-term contracts; instead, it is social partners that have improved crowdworkers’ conditions in some industries by using collective bargaining. However, there are no collective agreements in the digital economy, or indeed for platform entrepreneurs. The complications of the
parties’ positions will be analysed, especially as platforms do not consider themselves to be employers, but rather coordinators of the self-employed.
It is not only labour law regulations that are important to prevent precariat among crowdworkers. It is also very important that the social security regulations adapt to the new labour
market as the social security legislation is an important part of the Nordic model.

Department/s

  • Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU)
  • Department of Business Law

Publishing year

2020-04-01

Language

English

Pages

142-153

Publication/Series

European Labour Law Journal

Volume

11(2)

Issue

2020

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Law (excluding Law and Society)

Keywords

  • Assignment worker
  • Crowdworker
  • dependent contractor
  • false self-employed

Status

Published

Project

  • Egenföretagare från i huvudsakligen låglöneländer inom EU ersätter anställd personal i svenska företag. En rättsvetenskaplig studie om risk för snedvriden konkurrens och social dumping

Research group

  • Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2031-9525