The European Parliament adopted new regulations introducing minimum rights for all employees on 16 April. The rules grant rights to gig economy workers employed on atypical contracts and in non-standard jobs and include measures to protect workers by ensuring more transparent and predictable working conditions.
Such conditions include free mandatory training and limits on working hours and the length of the probationary period. The threshold for the protection of workers in casual or short-term employment, on-demand workers, intermittent workers, voucher-based workers, platform workers, as well as paid trainees and apprentices, is three hours per week and 12 hours per four weeks on average.
