Modern Tendencies for Persons Performing Work Through Digital Platform to Qualify as Employees

Authors

  • Miranda Matcharadze

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60131/jlaw.2.2021.3624

Keywords:

Key Words: Digital Labour platform, Application, Employment relationship, Economically dependent self-employee, Control through algorithm, Organization of working process.

Abstract

Determining legal status of persons performing work through digital platform is the challenge of modern employment law, as far as it is very important to develop a uniform approach towards this issue because of the specific character of this type of work. The tendency of widening the concept of employee in scientific literature and judicial practice is observed, the aim of which is to provide minimal social guarantees to persons. 

Author Biography

Miranda Matcharadze

PhD Student of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Faculty of Law.

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Published

2021-12-31

How to Cite

Matcharadze, M. (2021). Modern Tendencies for Persons Performing Work Through Digital Platform to Qualify as Employees. Journal of Law, (2), 151–165(GEO), 139. https://doi.org/10.60131/jlaw.2.2021.3624

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