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Platform Workers Directive: Why France is Dragging Its Feet (and How It Undermines the Text)

France is delaying the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive. The CGT calls for an automatic, collective presumption of an employment relationship, while the government's advisers recommend a narrower approach. A study of bicycle couriers documents long working hours, low earnings and ser…

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22 Oct 2026
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Platform Workers Directive: Why France is Dragging Its Feet (and How It Undermines the Text)

France is delaying the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive. The CGT calls for an automatic, collective presumption of an employment relationship, while the government's advisers recommend a narrower approach. A study of bicycle couriers documents long working hours, low earnings and ser…

Author: Sarah Delattre Source: nvo.fr
Sarah Delattre France Postal services and delivery CGT
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20 Oct 2026
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Variegated informalities in the globalization of platform work

Abstract The globalization of platform work has had variegated effects on working conditions. However, the dichotomy between formal employment and informal economic activities still dominates academic research and policymaking. This division reiterates a colonial matrix of thought by taking the fo…

Author: Tim Christiaens, Denise Kasparian, Suci Lestari Yuana, Gianluca Iazzolino, Juli… Source: journals.sagepub.com
Denise Kasparian Gianluca Iazzolino Julia Cófreces Martijn Arets
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30 Sep 2026
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We Are All Gig Workers Now: A Roundtable on the Next Gig Economy

Caption : Delivery worker biking in the snow. Credit : Peter Burka, Flickr In the years following the 2008 recession, a convergence of mass unemployment, cheap capital, and new digital platforms created fertile ground for a new class of precarious labor. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and TaskRabbit …

Source: newlaborforum.cuny.edu
Drew Weber Lina Moe Noah Meixler United States
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04 Oct 2026
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Why has the labor rights advocate been missing for 16 days now?

Xiao Wu's social media accounts have not been updated since September 14, 2026. It has now been more than half a month. His friends have tried every possible way to contact him, but have received no response. Xiao Wu isn’t a widely recognized name. Most people who know him have come across him th…

Source: search.laborinfocn2.com
Xiao Wu China Union busting and repression Gig Economy
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10 Sep 2026
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The Drivers Cooperative II : Unions Can Raise the Floor, Co-Ops Can Raise the Ceiling - The Forge

In every sector of the capitalist economy, firms have developed business practices that routinize the extraction of surplus value from workers through production of commodified goods and services. This appears as the designation of “Key Performance Indicators” toward which managers optimize the ope…

Source: forgeorganizing.org
United States Gig Economy Trade Union Infrastructure
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22 Aug 2026
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Solidarity by Statute? Experiments in Gig Worker Power

OPEN IN VIEWER California gig worker organizers celebrate the signing of Assembly Bill 1340, October 2025. Governor’s Office of California Effective May Day 2026, California gig drivers—workers who are legally classified as independent contractors—have the right to unionize and collectively barg…

Author: Diana Reddy, Declaration of Conflicting Interests, View all publications by thi… Source: journals.sagepub.com
Diana Reddy Gig Economy Labor rights
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