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Greece
The Ministry of Labour is the responsible body for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive, but in practise the ministry of Digital Governance has taken a leading role in the transposition. There is a working group that has been established for the transposition since May 2025 but the General Confederation of Greek Workers (Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε) […]
Germany
Consultation with social partners on a draft proposal for transposition of the Platform Work Directive remain ongoing. A key sticking point is what to include in the law on intermediaries. Unions have argued for a direct employment mandate which would prohibit sub-contracting in the platform economy, following the example of the meat industry in Germany. […]
Romania
The BNS platform workers’ union has been very active in proposing a draft law to the labour ministry. The ministry was very receptive to the BNS’ proposal but the employers’ organisation has now made it’s own proposals aimed at reducing worker protections, and some of those proposals may have ended in the ministry’s draft. The […]
Sweden
The Swedish Government has held consultations with the social partners and published its draft proposal for a platform work law on 12 January 2026. The proposal states that a Platform Work Act should be introduced and the law should be mandatory but with “certain possibilities to deviate from the law through collective agreements”. The legal presumption […]
Spain
The social dialogue process for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive has not yet begun, unions are waiting to hear from the Labour Ministry about this. The transposition will take the form of a new law. Representatives of the Labour Ministry have indicated that they are looking at an ambitious transposition, which could include […]
Cyprus
The process for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive has not yet started. Unions are waiting for the government to initiate social dialogue.
Slovenia
An election took place in March 2026, a new government has yet to be formed, and it is unlikely that there will be much progress on the transposition of the Platform Work Directive before the new government is in place. Academics have been commissioned to write a report about transposing PWD into Slovenian labour law, […]
Slovakia
The Slovakian labour ministry has drafted a proposal for a general legal presumption of employment in the platform economy. The draft proposal reads: “A contractual relationship between a digital labour platform or an intermediary and a person performing platform work shall be deemed to constitute an employment relationship if the person performing platform work or […]
Portugal
The Portuguese Government presented a preliminary draft proposal for the transposition of the Platform Work Directive in July 2025 called ‘Work XXI’. The proposal would significantly weaken the current legal presumption of employment in the platform economy in Portugal, which was introduced in 2023, and it is questionable whether it would be compliant with the […]
