{"title":"Access to social security for digital platform workers in Germany and in Russia: a comparative study","authors":"O. Chesalina","doi":"10.20318/SLLERJ.2018.4433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/SLLERJ.2018.4433","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A common feature of platform work in Germany and Russia is that in both countries the new forms of employment can usually only be classified as self-employed work in the form of ‘solo self-employment’, despite the fact that platforms use direct and indirect control mechanisms indicating a personal or at least an economic dependency of the digital workers on the platforms. The difference is that, in Germany, as the main rule, self-employed persons are not obligatorily insured in the state pesion insurance scheme, whereas in Russia, unlike Germany, the state pension insurance scheme is mandatory for all self-employed persons.Considering the different legal frameworks in Germany and in Russia, the article analyses various reform proposals aiming at tackling the above-mentioned challenges for the social security systems, and looks for adequate responses to ensure access to social security for digital platform workers. In particular, the following questions are investigated: Is it sufficient to subsume digital work under the existing employment categories? Could it be an appropriate solution for the access of digital workers to social security to introduce a new employment category only in social law?Keywords: digital platform worker, social security, self-employed person","PeriodicalId":422028,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134012236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contingent work is not contingent. Which models of regulation for the new forms of work?","authors":"Stefano Bini","doi":"10.20318/SLLERJ.2018.4432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/SLLERJ.2018.4432","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Contingent work represents a sort of paradigmatic epiphenomenon of a new expression of the Labour Law need to reconsider itself, its identity and its same scope in a future perspective. The employment contract looses its capacity to select the situations that need protection. By the way, workers’ professionalism always requires to be safeguarded, also through innovative legal instrument. In this sense, soft law and corporate social responsibility in particular, seem to represent privileged regulative tools, to be considered and explored in order to achieve the essential protective objectives of the subject, called to be protagonist in a deeply changed world.Keywords: Contingent work. Technological revolution. Corporate Social Responsibility","PeriodicalId":422028,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116042607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}