On 18 October Poland’s OPZZ trade union together with the Ebert Foundation (close to Germany’s Social-Democrat party) hosted a seminar aimed at exchanging information over online workers and practices aimed at protecting their interests. The seminar saw representatives participating from both German (DGB, Ver.di) and Polish (OPZZ, NSZZ) trade unions, as well as from the German Ministry for Labor and the Family and from the Polish Ministry for Labor and Social Policy.
The goal of the seminar was to share experience and good practices in the field of online platform work regulations. Online platform working is gathering pace in Poland and the country’s trade unions have stressed the need to create an institutional regulatory framework for this sector. “Several research studies as well as feedback from trade union experience have shown that online platform workers are often employed under uncertain conditions, which contribute to social dumping as well as posing a serious threat to the viability of the relevant trade unions.
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