Annamaria Westregård

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

Digital collaborative platforms: A challenge for both the legislator and the social partners in the Nordic model

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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 digitalizes new economy, analyzing 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 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 analyzed, especially as platforms do not consider themselves to be employers, but rather coordinators of the self-employed.

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