Mass wave of conventions work In the field of digital platform (eg Delivery Companies) The forthcoming integration of Community Directive 2024/2831 on “Improving the working conditions of platform workers”.
This directive stipulates that “platform worker” is “every person who performs a platform work and has or is considered to have a working relationship”, but also that “definition of digital work platforms (…) does not include service providers”.
This Directive, which must be incorporated into Greek law -that is, to be voted on by the National Parliament until December 2026 -contradicts a provision passed by the Government in 2021 (Law 4808/2021), according to which:
Digital platforms are called on businesses that act directly or as intermediaries and through an online platform connect service providers or businesses or third parties with users or customers or consumers and facilitate transactions or deal directly with them.
Digital platforms are linked to service providers with dependent employment contracts or independent or project contracts.
This means that once the government adopts the Community directive, businesses that employ staff on digital platforms should convert their contracts from services or project contracts into dependent work contracts.
That is, they will have to convert the “blockages” into a payroll, which will increase the salary (as employees will also be entitled to gifts) and non -wage costs (employees’ contributions are higher than blockage contributions) for themselves and the costs.