The European Union laid out a plan to give rights to gig economy workers, a move which labor unions say is overdue but some companies argue will lead to job losses
employee benefits, a move labour unions say is overdue but some companies argue will lead to job losses.
The EU executive said the draft rules could apply to around 4.1 million of the 28 million workers at online platform companies across the 27-country bloc. "That's naive because platforms will use that as a toolkit to get around the criteria and get away with everything," she said. "It is their entire profit model to avoid costs of employment."
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