The Platform Economy and Labour Law by Despoina Georgiou

The Platform Economy and Labour Law by Despoina Georgiou

This book focuses on the evolving definition of an employee, a concept fundamental to labour law protection.

As economic and social conditions in labour markets shift, traditional definitions have increasingly proven insufficient to encompass all individuals in need of protection. This has implications in multiple legal domains, including domestic laws, EU law, and international law. It also impacts various facets of labour law, such as social security and taxation. The book contributes to this ongoing debate by offering a novel perspective on the characteristics of integrated working activity, as derived from the European Commission's regulatory practice and the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) case law on competition law, specifically concerning integrated workers and agents. It critically examines the prevailing 'subordination' paradigm, which has been the traditional basis for classifying workers, but is increasingly inadequate in the modern labour context. Building upon this, the book presents a new theoretical framework for classifying workers within labour law frameworks.

This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of EU Law, Labour Law, Competition Law and Business Law.

Despoina Georgiou is a legal scholar specialising in EU Labour and Competition Law. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M. from UCL, and an LL.B. from DUTH. A former Lecturer at Cambridge, she has also conducted research at Harvard Law School and advised the European Parliament and the Greek Government on EU labour policy. Her award-winning work has appeared in leading law journals, and she has collaborated with renowned academics across Europe on projects exploring the future of work and EU regulation. Dr Georgiou also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Law Review.