EU Law and Digitalisation of Employment Relations

This chapter addresses the role EU law may play in shaping the responses of labour law to the digital challenge, and particularly whether it can bring about the right balance between the quality of employment and the profitability of businesses. It focuses in particular on the following issues: the scope of EU labour law, ie, the extent to which the available instruments are applicable to workers whose contractual schemes are framed into the business models enabled by the digital technologies (like platforms); the way in which working conditions are affected by technological innovations and the fitness of the current regulatory framework to respond to such challenges; the undergoing proposals for the introduction of new statutory provisions in the body of EU legislation.