Platform work
Amendments to the Labour Act which applicable from January 1st, 2024. regulate platform work. Provisions are applied to digital labour platforms and aggregators that organize work in the EU (regardless of the place of the business establishment).
What is platform work?
Platform work is a paid work that, under the agreement, a natural person performs for a digital labour platform or for an aggregator using digital technology, i.e., at a distance through electronic means (e.g., website, mobile application) or directly at a specific location.
What is a digital labour platform and what is an aggregator?
A digital labour platform is a natural or a legal person that provides services using digital technology at the request of a recipient of the service, through work in which natural persons perform work remotely using electronic means or directly at the specific location.
Aggregator is a natural or a legal person who performs the activity of representation or intermediation for digital work platforms.
Platform work can be performed by:
- an employee under the employment contract
- other persons for whom the contractual relationship was not created by concluding an employment contract.
Employers who hire employees for platform work are obligated to:
- regulate the platform work by an employment contract or a special contract;
- Name a person in charge of monitoring the work;
- take out accident insurance and liability insurance if the worker or other persons perform the work by participating in traffic with a vehicle that doesn’t need to be registered.
Platform work at employer`s request
If the work is performed at the request of the employer (unpredictable work pattern), the minimum number of the guaranteed paid working hours cannot be less than five hours per week and reference period within which the employer can request the work must be determined as well as the deadline until which the work task which the employee accepted can be revoked.
In case of non-fulfilment of the revoked task, the worker has the right on remuneration as if he had worked.
The worker has the right to refuse the work assignment if it is not possible to perform it within the time frame in which the work was requested.
The ministry keeps records of platform work in digital form.