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In the past few years, the platform economy has emerged as one of the
most disrupting phenomena in the labour market, questioning older ways
of organising work and of managing employment relationships. This has
prompted policy actors and stakeholders to react to these challenges by
starting a process of adaptation of the labour law framework to these
new forms of employment. Nevertheless, this process has been far from
homogenous across countries, as the existing employment-related
institutional framework has contributed to shaping the strategies and
responses of different policy actors and stakeholders in different ways.
Using semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders as well as
documentary analysis, this paper explores the ongoing process of
adaptation in two countries, Italy and the UK, characterised by very
different employment regulations frameworks, industrial relations and
policy preferences. It shows how the differences in these institutional
variables can explain the strikingly different response in terms of
labour law adaptation for regulating platform work and they are likely
to influence the unfolding reform process in the years to come.
Alessio
Bertolini reently completed his PhD in Social Policy at the University
of Edinburgh, with a dissertation on the experiences of precarious
employment among temporary agency workers in a comparative perspective.
He then joined Glasgow University on the ERC 'Work on Demand' project
in September 2018. As part of the WoD project, he has been investigating
proposals for labour law reforms as regards gig economy work in the UK
and Italy and the role of policy ideas in the regulation of new forms of
employment. Alessio has also been lecturing and tutoring in several
courses in labour market policy and social policy at the University of
Edinburgh.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/staff/alessiobertolini/#/biography