Abstract
Developments in ICT have led to new forms of employment, such as virtual work. There is a broad variation of platforms and there are similarly varied experiences of the platform workers. With regard to the status of platform providers and platform workers, platform work is often located in the gray zone: is the relationship between platform(owners) and platform workers to be qualified as a labour contract or as a commission contract? In this paper we apply two approaches to analyze the legal relation between platform provider / platform worker: the Purposive Approach (G. Davidov) and the functional concept of the employer (J. Prassl). This study is based on a Dutch platform for legal advice: ‘RechtDeur’. RechtDeur uses only lawyers who decide when they are available. Costs are transparent, determined by RechtDeur. Payment occurs via the platform. Quality is monitored by reviews which influence the permanence of lawyers on the platform.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 19 Oct 2017 |