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Teka Commission of Legal Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences Branch in Lublin

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2019)

Articles

Collective Bargaining as a Form of Trade Union Involvement in Regulating Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32084/tekapr.2019.12.2-19  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2019-12-31

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of trade unions’ involvement in the issues of employment on Internet platforms. In the first section, there are general issues related to collective labour law and employment on the platform. The following section analyses the various forms of trade union involvement. The article contains the primary hypothesis that the critical condition for the regulation of fair and decent work on global Internet platforms is the activation of trade unions in the form of information activities and social dialogue in the form of collective bargaining.

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