„Dubiose Praktiken“: Neue EU-Richtlinie soll Arbeitsbedingungen für Berliner Lieferdienst-Beschäftigte verbessern Der Tagesspiegel, 07 June 2025 Work on online platforms for courier services, cleaning, and taxi rides is often precarious, with poor working conditions. A new EU directive aims to improve working conditions for delivery service workers in Berlin. Read more
The Polish delivery app workers organising to stop digital platforms taking them for a ride Equal Times, 15 May 2025 Digital labour platforms pose significant challenges in terms of labour rights, which a new European directive seeks to tackle. In Poland, its implementation is fuelling both hope and concern. Read more
Women riders brave rising heat index to avail of flexibility and above-minimum wage promise of platform economy The Manila Times, 11 May 2025 For women workers who joined the platform economy for its potential of flexibility and better earnings, every trip is a balancing act between income and exhaustion, freedom and physical risk, all in a city getting hotter by the year. Read more
Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them rest of world, 16 April 2025 Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find. Fairwork's Óscar Maldonado comments. Read more
Delivery riders: What would a day be without them? Manila Bulletin, 22 February 2025 Many riders work long hours, relying on fluctuating customer demand and incentive structures that often fail to provide a stable income. If there are less delivery jobs for the day, many of them stay on to work up to 16 hours. Read more
W Polsce można pracować nawet na umowę najmu. Raport o warunkach pracy w Pyszne.pl i Uberze OKO.press, 28 January 2025 Fairwork has prepared a report on working conditions on platforms operating in Poland - this is the first such report. Six applications were examined: Pyszne.pl (part of the international Just Eat Takeaway), Glovo, Uber, Uber Eats, Bolt and Freenow. Read more
FairWork Polska. Jak pracuje się dowożąc jedzenie? Radio Kampus, 06 January 2025 What's it like to work delivering food? Zuzanna Kowalik and Karol Muszyński, authors of the Polish edition of the FairWork report, talk to Bartosz Pergoła about the strange legal and factual landscape of platform work in Poland. Read more
Holiday surge takes toll on platform workers Business World, 03 January 2025 PLATFORM WORKERS are left grappling with unrelenting schedules during the holidays, facing mounting health risks and enjoying insufficient protections. Read more
Jedzenie na dowóz? Większość platform nie zapewnia pracownikom nawet uczciwej stawki godzinowej Wyborcza.biz, 01 January 2025 Most Platforms Don't Even Provide Workers with a Fair Hourly Wage. Read more
Demands of holiday season show need to fast-track bills protecting platform workers Business World, 25 December 2024 THE heightened demands of the holiday season have exacerbated the challenges faced by gig workers in delivery services, prompting calls for urgent legislative action on bills that would safeguard their rights and welfare. Read more
When Apps Are Gamified, Workers Rarely Win Pulitzer Center, 13 December 2024 Gig work is full-time work in the Philippines. Food-delivery and ride-hailing workers, whose daily routine is dictated by an algorithm, struggle with uncertain pay, indebtedness, and the physical toll of chasing incentives. Read more
Após ‘operação de influência’ da indústria, governo Lula rifou proteção a trabalhadores para aprovar regulação de IA Intercept Brasil, 02 December 2024 Read more