In 2022, Malta established a general, unconditional presumption of employment in the platform economy. The law states:
“When considering the employment status of a person performing digital platform work, it shall be presumed that there is an employment relationship and that the digital labour platform for whom the platform work is provided, or the work agency who assigns such person to or places him at the disposal of any digital labour platform, as the case may be, is the employer and that the provisions of the Act and of the regulations or orders issued thereunder apply to that relationship.”
The transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive will therefore be focused on defending this presumption and extending algorithmic management rights to platform workers.