The Slovakian parliament passed the Platform Work Directive, the Act on Work Performed through Digital Labour Platforms, on 23rd September 2026. The law will come into effect on 2 December. Section 3.1 of the Bill proposes a presumption of employment in the platform economy (including for intermediaries) which is based on either: a) Slovakia’s already-existing […]

The French labour minister Jean-Pierre Farandou has said that the Platform Work Directive will not be transposed in time for the 2 December deadline, and is unlikely to be ready before the presidential term ends next year. The French Presidential election is due to take place in April 2027 with the parliamentary session ending in […]

Two bills have been put out for public consultation, with the deadline to give views and comments on the drafts ending on September 24. The first bill amends the Social Insurance Law, while the second advances the enactment of a new law to implement the directive—specifically, the Law on the Regulation of Working Conditions for […]

Luxembourg plans to introduce a Bill to the parliament in early October for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive. The government has been in discussions with social partners since 10 February, when the draft Bill was first released. Responding to parliamentary questions in July, labour minister Marc Spautz said that there had been “several […]

The Spanish Government opened a public consultation on the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive on 5 August 2026. The Labour Ministry aims to have the transposition complete by the end of the year. The idea is to extend the ‘Rider Law’, which established a general legal presumption of employment in the food delivery […]

The Finnish Government has published its proposal for a minimum implementation of the transposition of the Platform Work Directive. The draft proposal follows a one and a half year tripartite negotiation involving union and employer organisations. The Confederation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK and STTK have expressed their opposition to the proposal, on the basis […]

The Italian Government has developed a proposal for the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive, although the contents of the proposal have not yet been fully published. In a press release issued on 24 July 2026, the Government stated that the transposition proposal extends a previous presumption of employment for food delivery couriers announced […]

The Dutch Government has published a draft Platform Work Act which can be accessed here. The proposal includes a legal presumption of employment for workers on digital labour platforms “when there are factual indications of direction and supervision”. The proposal leaves it up to “Order in Council” to lay down “further rules” for when direction […]

The Economic and Social Council of the Republic of Bulgaria adopted in March 2025 an Analysis on the Directive on the improvement of working conditions in platform work. In May 2026, The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy established an interdepartmental working group for the transposition of the Directive, which will develop a text to […]