Короткий опис(реферат):
У статті розглядаються питання визначення колективних прав працівників цифрових
трудових платформ гіг-економіки. Україна, за даними Міжнародної організації праці (далі – МОП),
належить до країн із найбільш швидкими темпами зростання гіг-економіки, і тому проблема
правового регулювання всього комплексу відносин, що складають систему гіг-економіки як у
Європейському Союзі, так і в Україні, серед яких центральне місце займають трудові, є актуальною,
теоретично й практично значущою, що обумовлює необхідність її всебічного дослідження з метою
модернізації національного законодавства відповідно до права ЄС. The article considers the issue of determining the collective rights of employees of
digital labor platforms of the gig-economy. Ukraine, according to the International Labor Organization, is
one of the countries with the fastest growth rates of the gig-economy, and therefore the problem of legal
regulation of the entire complex of relations that make up the system of the gig-economy both in the
European Union and in Ukraine, among which the central place is occupied by labor, is relevant,
theoretically and practically significant. This necessitates a comprehensive study of the mentioned
problem, with the aim of modernizing national legislation in accordance with EU law.
The urgency of the problem is also explained by the fact of a sharp increase in the number of people
employed in this field, especially during the pandemic. According to separate data, there are approximately
500 platforms operating in the EU today, employing 28 million people. It is expected that their number will
increase to 43 million by 2025. According to the European Commission, about 5.5 million of them are
mistakenly classified as self-employed, although according to the basic parameters they belong to hired
workers (employees). Accordingly, they do not have adequate labor rights and social protection.
Similar problems exist in Ukraine, which ranks first in Europe and fourth in the world in terms of
the number of employees and the volume of financial flows in this field of activity. By the way, a
significant part of them belongs to informal employment, which is also stated in the Ukraine-EU
Association Agreement (paragraph h of Article 421). It should be noted that the concept of collective
labor law of the digital platform is absent in the national legislation. Millions of workers do not have
adequate legal status, and therefore no corresponding rights. First of all collective ones. Its solution is
quite difficult. The workers themselves are dispersed, do not form labor teams, and communicate very
little personally. Taking into account the low level of legal regulation of production activity in general,
and especially in the field of the gig-economy, exchange rate policy, which makes it possible, taking into
account the fact that a significant part of production activity is carried out for foreign customers with
payments in foreign currency, to receive often significantly more compared to domestic ones workers in
typical forms of employment it should be recognized that a significant part of gig workers are generally
satisfied with the existing state of affairs, their formal status as a professional worker or its absence at all.
So, in our opinion, taking into account the country s course for integration with the EU and the status of a
candidate state for joining the Union, the first step on the way to improving the legal mechanism for
regulating relations in the field of the gig economy could be the transposition of the above-mentioned
legal acts of the EU into the national law of Ukraine.
