Uber Calls for Industry Standards on Gig-Economy Work in Europe
February 16 2021 - 9:24AM
Dow Jones News
By Adam Clark
Uber Technologies Inc. said Tuesday that it supports
industry-wide standards of gig-economy work in Europe, arguing for
a clarified legal model but opposing requirements to employ drivers
and couriers.
The company published a white paper calling on policymakers and
other gig-economy apps to build frameworks for "flexible earning
opportunities" but maintain the status of independent workers. It
said such rules should be set by individual European nations.
"This could include introducing new laws such as the legislation
recently enacted in California. Or based on a more European model
of social dialogue, where platform workers, policymakers and social
representatives work together to set earning principles," Uber
said.
Uber said it could support measures such as helping workers pay
into existing social-security plans or an industry-funded benefits
fund and pointed to its own model of offering insurance in
partnership with French insurance company AXA SA.
The call comes after a series of European legal judgments
challenging the independent worker model. In the U.K., Uber is
appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn an earlier decision that
drivers using its app effectively work for the company, while Swiss
courts have forced Uber Eats to stop using independent contractors
in the Geneva area. Instead it has started using third-party
employees--a first for the company.
Write to Adam Clark at adam.clark@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 16, 2021 09:09 ET (14:09 GMT)
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