Advice for Self-Employed

Initiators:
Ver.di
Creation date:
2016
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Ver.di offers self-employed individuals special information,
support and an opportunity to become actively involved.
Concerning platform workers, the measure develops on the idea to elaborate some recommendations for action for unionists about what to do for crowd work.On the basis of a survey with unions’ officials and works councils in 2016, it came out IT and telecommunications are those activities more exposed to crowd work, whilst the survey also highlighted many unionists actually did not know what crowd work is.

Digital Platform Observatory

The digital platform observatory is a joint initiative of ETUC, IRES and ASTREES, funded by the European Commission. It brings together trade unionists, experts, activists, specialists of workers representation and collective action in the  platform economy.