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Casual work arrangements and platform-based work: The casual work agenda as a way to enhance the labour protection of platform workers

The world of work is changing at a considerably high speed. Work arrangements alternative to the standard, open-ended and full-time ones now represent the new reality. These forms of employment include atypical work arrangements such as temporary and casual work, agency work and subcontracting, part-time work, and bogus and dependent self-employment. Work in the gig-economy shares numerous dimensions with all these kind of arrangements. In particular, it presents striking similarities with casual work. Instability of work and income even if engaged in a long-standing work arrangement, exclusions from labour protection and marginalization are also defining features of many form of work in the gig-economy. This is why, methodologically, it is crucial not to interpret work in the gig-economy as a sort of separate silo of the labour market and is necessary instead to analyse this work against the background of broader labour market trends, and particularly the casualization of work relationship and the spread of casual work arrangements. My research intends to show how work in the gig-economy is a significant part of this trend and to argue for its inclusion in broader regulating strategies aimed at bettering the protections of casual workers.

Date:1 Oct 2018 →  2 Mar 2023
Keywords:non-standard employment, casualization of labour markets, zero hours contracts, labour protection, platform-based work
Disciplines:Law, Other law and legal studies
Project type:PhD project