The agreed text strikes a balance between respecting national labour law and ensuring minimum standards of protection, the council said.
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00:00 EU member states and lawmakers have provisionally agreed on new rules for platform workers aiming
00:08 to improve working conditions and regulate the use of algorithms.
00:14 The deal comes after several member states last month derailed a political agreement
00:18 that was reached earlier with the European Parliament.
00:23 "We have to take another fight, I think, in order to ensure that this economy, which is
00:30 an important economy, doesn't maltreat people systematically, treat them as day-to-day workers
00:37 that you can, without sick leave, without any pension rights, without any rights at
00:42 all basically.
00:43 We have to put an end to that.
00:45 This is a first step, but a lot will have to be done at national level, of course."
00:52 The rules were first proposed by the Commission in December 2021 to protect workers from apps
00:59 such as Uber, Delivery and Glovo, who are often treated as self-employed despite being
01:03 under rules similar to ordinary employees.
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