The future is gig work – but the system is currently broken. Solutions are coming from academia

Taxi drivers who offer their services in the Netherlands via Uber are not self-employed entrepreneurs, but employees. The company must employ them and pay them according to the taxi collective bargaining agreement. That is what the District Court of Amsterdam decided today.

The seminar wants to raise reflections, ideas, knowledge and perspectives on how labour law could manage this challenge, employing the various methodological categories that have been proposed by scholars, such as the dosage between universality and selectivity, personal work relationships, economically dependent work, etc.

LAG is a digital compilation of different types of works of art from different places in the world that address labour as a central theme; a unique compilation which without the collaboration of different people from different countries, would be very difficult.