According to the ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation), the EU Commission regulation proposal presented on 26 April 2018 that aims to promote online platform fairness and transparency, ‘is a necessary step, but totally fails to protect workers who rely on online platforms for their livelihoods.’ By limiting regulation of unfair practices to shopping platforms offering goods and services, such as Amazon or eBay, and search engines, the ETUC holds that the initiative is omitting to ensure transparency and fairness for workers on labour platforms such as Uber, Deliveroo, and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Presented on 26 April, the Commission’s proposal for regulation aims to protect business users of online intermediation services that match users with suppliers (Amazon, EBay, etc.), and whose classification systems, that are sometimes billed, influence businesses’ visibility levels. Social media networks, online comparison sites, and research engines are also concerned. The regulation proposal seeks to ensure transparency over the methods being used to determine classifications and to require
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