Project description
Improving working conditions for online jobs
Today’s so-called ‘gig economy’ is thriving thanks to the spread of online work platforms or apps, which provide employment to millions of people around the world. As this new market booms, there is a growing need to focus on working conditions. For instance, negotiating working hours and salaries is oftentimes difficult if not impossible. This form of employment can be described as highly stressful, low-income and with lengthy and erratic hours. The EU-funded FAIRWORK project will set the bases of a Fairwork Foundation that will co-develop fair work principles with key stakeholders. It will improve methods to evaluate those principles as well as estimate and classify platforms' behaviour in terms of fair work principles.
Objective
Millions of platform workers live all over the world: doing work that is outsourced via platforms or apps in the ‘gig economy.’ Workers tend to have little ability to negotiate wages or working conditions with the platforms that give them work. The ERC GEONET project has shown that, as a result of this new market for work, many workers have jobs characterized by long and irregular hours, low income, and high stress. The international nature of digital work means that some of it can be done outside of the purview of national governments, with few employers paying attention to relevant existing regulation in either their home countries or the worker’s home country. Labour platforms can therefore threaten to undermine workers’ ability to defend existing jobs, liveable wages, and dignified working conditions, in both low and high-income countries. If wages and working conditions for digital workers are to improve, new international strategies need to be devised. This Proof of Concept project will create the beginnings of a ‘Fairwork Foundation.’ It seeks to co-develop fair work principles with key stakeholders, develop methods to assess those principles, and ultimately rate and rank platforms against how they score against the fair work principles.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant
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(opens in new window) ERC-2018-PoC
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OX1 2JD Oxford
United Kingdom
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