EU: platform work directive definitively adopted

On 14 October, the Council of the EU approved the platform work directive presented by the European Commission at the end of 2021. After several blocks on the directive, notably by France and Germany, it was the compromise reached at the beginning of the year that was definitively adopted by EU member states. They will have until autumn 2026 to implement in national legislation a presumption of salaried status, which could affect almost 28 million European workers, previously self-employed,...