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The position of the employee in the changing world of dependent work
Tkadlec, Matěj ; Morávek, Jakub (advisor) ; Tomšej, Jakub (referee) ; Šimečková, Eva (referee)
THE POSITION OF THE EMPLOYEE IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF DEPENDENT WORK ABSTRACT This dissertation theses focuses on the issue of dependent work with regard to the phenomenon of the so-called sharing economy or platform economy. In its first part, I therefore discuss in detail what is actually meant by dependent work, what has been its historical development in our territory, and how its individual definitional features are interpreted, as defined in Section 2(1) of the Labor Code, as well as other features imported by case law, which are the consistency of work and its performance for remuneration. I conclude that the definition of dependent work as it is currently written in the Labor Code may in many cases erode the labor market rather than preserve legal certainty. The reason for this is that, particularly in the 21st century, the labor market is undergoing significant changes which, among other things, have resulted in new expectations, attitudes and requirements for mutual contractual relations on the part of both employers and employees. Strictly speaking, the definition of dependent work still corresponds to so-called factory work, but it is very skeletal when applied to more modern and flexible forms of employment such as those found in the IT sector or the sharing economy. For this reason, in the...
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Meaningfulness of Work in Platform Economy
Kreisinger, Jonáš ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Müller, Karel (referee)
In my thesis I deal with the concept of meaningful work in a platform economy. Meaningful work is a theoretical as well as a practical problem that exists across various fields of study. Meaningful work is increasingly important topic, which corresponds with actual problems that workers face in their workplace. The main goal of the thesis is to inquire if and how is this concept useful to describe the working conditions of emerging platform economy, which strengthens the class conflict at the workplace. I research this problem on the case of Viennese food delivery service Mjam with application of the method of the phenomenological analysis, which enabled me to study dailiness and experiencing of meaningfulness of work of the couriers. For the analysis, I conducted semi-structured interviews with the riders. Even though the couriers experience occasionally meaningfulness as well as meaninglessness at the workplace, the thesis shows that this concept is rather used to rephrase their crucial problems of the workplace. The researched literature partially ignores the real problems of workers in their workplace as well as the complexity and heterogeneity of the problem of meaningful work.
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