MIRANDA BOTO, J. M. / / BRAMESHUBER, E.
Table of Contents
1. Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy: Reality and Possibilities
José María Miranda Boto (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Part I: The Sources of a Possible Regulation
2. The Boundaries between Collective Agreements and Statutory Legislation in the Gig Economy
Piera Loi (University of Cagliari, Italy)
3. The EU Normative Patchwork on the Regulation of Platform Work
Luca Ratti (University of Luxembourg)
4. Collective Bargaining in the Gig-Economy and the European Social Charter
Barbara Kresal (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
5. Litigating the Gig Economy: Comparative Experiences from Europes Supreme Courts
Jeremias AdamsPrassl
(University of Oxford, UK), Sylvaine Laulom (University Lumière Lyon 2, France) and Yolanda Maneiro Vázquez
(University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
6. Why Collective Bargaining Is a Must for Platform Workers
Tamás Gyulavári (Peter Pázmány Catholic University of Budapest, Hungary) and Gábor Kártyás (Peter Pázmány Catholic University of
Budapest, Hungary)
Part II Actors and Contents
7. The Smart Trade Union: New Strategies for a Digitalised Labour Market
Felicia Rosioru (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
8. Algorithms, Discrimination and Collective Bargaining
Teresa Alexandra Coelho Moreira (University of Minho, Portugal)
9. Protection of Gig Workers against Contract Termination: Not for Everyone?
Jakub Tomej (Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic)
10 The Personal Dimension of Collective Bargaining in the Gig-Economy: The Spanish Perspective
Daniel Pérez del Prado (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) and Guillermo Barrios Baudor (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
11. The Shortcomings of the North-American Collective Bargaining Model in the Gig Economy: The Turkish Perspective
Kubra Dogan Yenisey (Bilgi University of Istanbul, Turkey)
12. (A Fundamental Right to) Collective Bargaining for Economically Dependent, Employee-Like Workers
Elisabeth Brameshuber (University of Vienna, Austria)
This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy.
Despite the variety of situations covered by the term gig economy, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various
countries, either at company or at branch level. Offline workers such as riders, food deliverers, drivers or providers of cleaning services are slowly gaining access to the series of negotiated rights that, in the past, were only available to employees.
The chapters analyse recent high-profile decisions including Uber in Frances Court de Cassation, Glovo in the Spanish Supreme Court, and Uber in the UK Supreme Court.
They evaluate the bargaining agents in different Member States of the EU, to determine whether established actors are participating in the dynamics of the gig economy or if they are being substituted, totally or partially, by new agents. Interesting best practices are drawn from the comparison, also as regards the contents of collective bargaining,
raising awareness in those countries that are being left behind in the dynamics of the gig economy.
The book collects the results of the COGENS (VS/2019/0084) research project, funded
by the European Union, that gathered scholars and stakeholders from 17 countries. It
will be an invaluable resource for scholars, trade unionists and policy makers.
