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 […]

The Portuguese Government presented a preliminary draft proposal for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive in July 2025 called ‘Work XXI’. The proposal would significantly weaken the current legal presumption of employment in the platform economy in Portugal, which was introduced in 2023, as the criteria to trigger the presumption is changed and is […]

The Ministry of Labour is the responsible body for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive, but in practise the ministry of Digital Governance has taken a leading role in the transposition. There is a working group that has been established for the transposition since May 2025 but the General Confederation of Greek Workers (Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε) […]

Consultation with social partners on a draft proposal for transposition of the Platform Work Directive remain ongoing. A key sticking point is what to include in the law on intermediaries. Unions have argued for a direct employment mandate which would prohibit sub-contracting in the platform economy, following the example of the meat industry in Germany. […]

Working group talks continue between the employment ministry and the social partners about the transposition of the Platform Work Directive. Denmark held an election in March 2026 and no government has been formed yet following the election. This is likely to delay the process of a Platform Work Directive law being finalised. Unions are pursuing […]