The Approach to Establishing Work Standards for the Platform Work

Author: WangTianyu

 

 

Abstract: The work standards for the platform work aim to form the basic working conditionsfor flexible job-taking workers in the platform economy. The rules on work standards in the currentpolicy portfolio are employer-obligatory ones, using "normal work" and "work quota" in theRegulations on Minimum Wage as tools in an attempt to apply the structure of work standards basedon subordinate labor to platform work. However, platform work, due to its flexibility and autonomy,has broken through the labor form of "labor process being bound" and the jurisprudence of employer’sobligation of work standards, thus establishing a new form of socialization of contract of work.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the task-measurement work standards based on economic subordination,control the unit price, continuity and total amount of work-contracting tasks, establish the rules ofinformed algorithm and collective consent, adopt the approach of system establishment by settinga "separate chapter" in the legislation on work standards, and promote the transformation ofwork dichotomy to work trichotomy in the field of work conditions.

Keywords: Platform Work; Work Standards; Work Remuneration; Working Hour; Algorithm

 

Author:Wang Tianyu, research fellow and deputy head of Social Law Department of CASS Institute of Law;

 

Source: 8 (2022) Politics and Law