Platform work across Europe
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Lieferando sacks all of its riders in Austria
Lieferando (Just Eat Takeaway) fired all of its riders in July 2025. The shock move saw 1,000 riders and 65 operational staff lose their jobs, as the company moves to a ‘self-employed’ model in the central European country. The mass firing came despite the fact that Lieferando Austria had previously singed collective agreements with the […]
DiDaNet
The DidaNet project was launched under the auspices of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation (ÖGB). It brings together partners from across the Danube region. The project’s objective is to contribute to fair working conditions in the Danube region countries through cooperation between social partners. This should help, on the one hand, to combat precarious working […]
FairCrowdWork.at
FairCrowdWork is a joint initiative of IG Metall, the Austrian Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Trade Union Confederation, and the Swedish White-Collar Workers’ Union, in collaboration with R&D partners Encountering Tech and M&L Communication Marketing. FairCrowdWork collects and disseminates information on micro-work, app-based work, and other forms of platform work from the perspectives of both […]
Austria
The labour and social affairs ministry is the competent authority for transposition of the Platform Work Directive. The ministry has held meetings with social partners on its proposals for the legislative text. The transposition will take the form of a new law. From the trade union side, the VIDA union is co-operating with the Chamber […]