| Project Detail |
Improving working conditions for online jobs
Today’s so-called ‘gig economy’ is thriving thanks to the spread of online work platforms or apps, which provide employment to millions of people around the world. As this new market booms, there is a growing need to focus on working conditions. For instance, negotiating working hours and salaries is oftentimes difficult if not impossible. This form of employment can be described as highly stressful, low-income and with lengthy and erratic hours. The EU-funded FAIRWORK project will set the bases of a Fairwork Foundation that will co-develop fair work principles with key stakeholders. It will improve methods to evaluate those principles as well as estimate and classify platforms behaviour in terms of fair work principles. |
