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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Improving working conditions in platform work

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 11 November 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 17 January 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 12 December 2022
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 23 December 2022
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 19 March 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 24 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 11 November 2024
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs
Rapporteur
Elisabetta GUALMINI S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197611 IDDennis RADTKE PPEAnna ZALEWSKA ECRMEP #197766 RenewKim VAN SPARRENTAK Verts/ALELeila CHAIBI The Left
For opinion
TRAN — Transport and Tourism · rapporteur MEP #96868 Verts/ALE

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0330/2024 24 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed directive to improve working conditions in platform work. The text sets rules on employment status, algorithmic management, transparency and enforcement, and corresponds to the final Directive (EU) 2024/2831.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0301/2022 23 December 2022 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive on improving working conditions in platform work sets rules on employment status, algorithmic management, transparency and enforcement.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (EMPL) 3 May 2022 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a directive on improving working conditions in platform work. It proposes a rebuttable legal presumption of employment for platform work and rules on algorithmic management.

Committee opinions: Opinion (TRAN),Draft opinion (TRAN)

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Outcome
  2. 11 November 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 23 October 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

  4. Plenary stage
  5. 24 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 24 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0330/2024📄 Report A9-0301/2022
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 554 Against 56 Abstained 24

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:53 · 87% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 19 March 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

    The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.

    📄 EMPL-AG-759913
  8. 2 February 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

  9. Plenary stage
  10. 2 February 2023 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 2 February 2023 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0454/2021📄 Report A9-0301/2022
  11. 23 December 2022 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A9-0301/2022
  12. Committee stage
  13. 12 December 2022 Committee vote: report adopted

    EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  14. 3 October 2022 TRAN (Transport and Tourism) adopted its opinion

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 Opinion (TRAN)
  15. 19 May 2022 Draft opinion from TRAN (Transport and Tourism)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (TRAN)
  16. 3 May 2022 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (EMPL)
  17. 17 January 2022 Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; TRAN (Transport and Tourism) gives an opinion.