On the day the European Commission launched a consultation to understand how to improve the “protection of platform workers”, the Milan prosecutor’s office announced in a press conference on Wednesday – where the Ken Loach movie
Sorry We Missed You was quoted – that food delivery companies Uber Eats, Glovo-Foodinho, Deliveroo and Just Eat are to hire 60,000 riders with a collaboration contract within the next three months.
While most riders are currently tied to these companies by occasional self-employment contracts, the riders are doing work comparable to that of employees because they are fully integrated into the firms’ daily organisation and are coordinated remotely, according to the prosecutor.
Local lockdowns are multiplying in Italy
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Italian ambassador killed in Congo
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BUDAPEST
Hungary’s top EU court nominee chosen unilaterally without formal selection, sources say. Neither a public application nor any other formal selection procedure preceded the nomination of Zoltán Csehi as the country’s new member of the European Court of Justice by Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga. According to Telex sources, Csehi had been a lawyer in the law firm of Varga’s predecessor until 2016 and had little experience in European law prior to being appointed to the European General Court that same year. Read more.
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EU PRESIDENCY
Commission wants to ‘explore options’ for India trade, investment. The European Commission said on Thursday it wants to “explore options” for expanding the EU’s trade and investment with India, notably ahead of a summit scheduled for May in Porto as part of Portugal’s presidency of the Council of the EU. Read the full story.
Italian Senate gives Draghi government confidence nod
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