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Ruwan Subasinghe
@RuwanSubasinghe
@ITFglobalunion Legal Director. Board member @ILAW_Network, @ethicaltrade & @cornellilr GLI. @BHRJournal DIF Panel. Sports. Hip Hop. Views my own. He/him
Oct 17, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The @ilo platform work meeting failed because the Employers withdrew from negotiations late on the final day. Workers & Govts were unanimously open to standard-setting action. Workers explicitly called for a Convention. Matter now with the GB. #gigeconomy

Some details:🧵1/13 For the Workers’ Group, an ILO Convention would cover both in-situ and online platform work and apply to ALL platform workers in the broadest sense of the term.

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Dec 9, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
BREAKING: After yrs of worker/union advocacy, litigation & organising, @EU_Commission publishes #gigeconomy work Directive with a presumption of employment status for app-workers & provisions on algo mgmt. Amendments needed, but a MASSIVE step forward.🧵1/
ec.europa.eu/social/BlobSer… The purpose of the Directive is to ‘ensure correct determination of platform workers’ employment status, by promoting transparency, fairness and accountability in algorithmic management in platform work and by improving transparency in platform work’.
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Mar 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Some thoughts on #Uber's decision to implement *part* of the UK SC ruling and what this means in the wider context.

- The shift in language on employment rights vs flexibility is VERY significant even if Uber was careful to say this is 'unique' to the UK'...

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#gigeconomy ...Uber's position has always been about a trade-off between employment rights (even if limited under 'worker' status) & flexibility. This shift has implications beyond the UK.
- Will Uber use this play to campaign for IC+/3rd category elsewhere? That will prob not change.

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Mar 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🚨After years of worker/union-led litigation, #Uber will classify their drivers (NOT riders) in the UK as 'workers' (min wage, holiday pay, union rights & more). Turning point for the #gigeconomy. Battle on definition of 'working time' ahead. Still, wow. ft.com/content/8d3947… SEC Filing sets out further details 👇🏾
Holiday time based on 12.07% of earnings. Drivers automatically enrolled into a pension plan with contributions from Uber.

So you can have employment rights and flexibility after all!

sec.report/Document/00015…