Digital work in the transport sector: in search of the employer

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.12.2.0023

A. Loffredo, M. Tufo

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article analyses two of the major digital platforms dealing with transport: Uber and FlixBus. It reconstructs the nature of these platforms as transportation companies and studies their structures. It finds that such companies can assume ‘trilateral’ or ‘quadrilateral’ structures, depending on the subjects involved, with different consequences for labour relations. Following on from this, the article investigates the applicability of labour law in such structures, searching for an employment relationship in ‘trilateral’ structures and identifying the real employer in ‘quadrilateral’ structures.

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交通部门的数字化工作:寻找雇主

本文分析了两个主要的数字交通平台:Uber和FlixBus。它重构了这些平台作为运输公司的性质，并研究了它们的结构。研究发现，这些公司可以采用“三边”或“四边”结构，这取决于所涉及的主题，对劳资关系产生不同的影响。在此基础上，本文研究了劳动法在这种结构中的适用性，在“三边”结构中寻找雇佣关系，在“四边”结构中识别真正的雇主。

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations

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