Prior to the Government’s Digital Agenda Summit being in Berlin (30 November – 01 December), Employment and Social Affairs Minister Hubertus Heil opened a discussion on labor conditions and labor law in the platform economy, which will provide material for formulating draft legislation on the issue. On 27 November, Minister Heil posted a document online containing the key points around which he hopes the discussion will revolve. No legislative timetable has currently been set.
The coalition agreement signed in 2018 by the parties in government (CDU, CSU and SPD) includes a chapter on German economic competitiveness and digitization that intends both to strengthen the rights of employees and consumers in the face of the growing number of actors operating in the platform economy, as well as underscore the need to strengthen the latter’s commitment to the process. With this as a basis, and ahead of this Digital Summit, Minister Hubertus Heil published a list of key poin
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