Employer or Owner? The Character of Platform Work

Gábor Mélypataki (), Dávid Adrián Máté (), Panggih Kusuma Ningrum () and Zsófia Riczu ()
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Gábor Mélypataki: University of Miskolc
Dávid Adrián Máté: University of Miskolc
Panggih Kusuma Ningrum: HeyLaw Indonesia
Zsófia Riczu: University of Miskolc

A chapter in Sustainability in the Gig Economy, 2022, pp 211-224 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The rapid growth of technology naturally brings the development and transformation of social relationships. The application of this new technology, even an application or a robot, has been transforming the interpersonal relationships between humans. One of its most significant effects appears in the employment relationships even nowadays. We are talking about several segments of this process. From them, we would like to highlight the employment subjects, mainly the owner of the platform. Previously, there were numerous vital studies about platform employees and their rights while for the current study we do it in the frame of the research, which mainly deals with whether the owner of the platform is only an owner or provider or considered as an employer. The phenomenon shows that the legal situation is quite unclear and debatable. Thus, this current study investigates the phenomenon by analysing the platform work practices, theory, and case law. The result reveals that there is a contradiction in the industrial practice regarding this issue as the platform firms tended to escape from the employment-relating obligations, which consequently caused a vulnerable situation for the workers.

Keywords: Employer; Owner; Platform work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8406-7_16

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