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Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy
Menzelová, Kristýna ; Štefko, Martin (referee)
Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy Abstract The thesis focuses on the legal status of persons who are involved in the platform economy. Under certain circumstances, these persons, called service providers in the thesis, are on the borderline between the legal status of an employee and the legal status of a self-employed entrepreneur. One of the causes of this unclarity is the practices of some digital platform providers that are applied to the service providers. These practices are commonly used by the employer to their employees rather than between business partners. For instance, these practices can include the control mechanisms, the evaluation system, or the unilateral determination of price and the way of service providing. The focal point of this thesis lies in an analysis of legal status of service providers resulting from the legal relationships that are concluded on digital platforms. Due to the unavailability of the contracts that are the base of these legal relationships, it is the terms and conditions of the particular digital platform providers that are used for the analysis. The labour law regulation is applied to the legal relationships defined in this way focusing on the question, whether the activity of service providers fulfils the characteristics of dependent work. Subsequently,...
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Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy
Menzelová, Kristýna ; Štefko, Martin (referee)
Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy Abstract The thesis focuses on the legal status of persons who are involved in the platform economy. Under certain circumstances, these persons, called service providers in the thesis, are on the borderline between the legal status of an employee and the legal status of a self-employed entrepreneur. One of the causes of this unclarity is the practices of some digital platform providers that are applied to the service providers. These practices are commonly used by the employer to their employees rather than between business partners. For instance, these practices can include the control mechanisms, the evaluation system, or the unilateral determination of price and the way of service providing. The focal point of this thesis lies in an analysis of legal status of service providers resulting from the legal relationships that are concluded on digital platforms. Due to the unavailability of the contracts that are the base of these legal relationships, it is the terms and conditions of the particular digital platform providers that are used for the analysis. The labour law regulation is applied to the legal relationships defined in this way focusing on the question, whether the activity of service providers fulfils the characteristics of dependent work. Subsequently,...
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Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy
Menzelová, Kristýna ; Tomšej, Jakub (advisor) ; Morávek, Jakub (referee)
Legal Status of Persons in Platform Economy Abstract The thesis focuses on the legal status of persons who are involved in the platform economy. Under certain circumstances, these persons, called service providers in the thesis, are on the borderline between the legal status of an employee and the legal status of a self-employed entrepreneur. One of the causes of this unclarity is the practices of some digital platform providers that are applied to the service providers. These practices are commonly used by the employer to their employees rather than between business partners. For instance, these practices can include the control mechanisms, the evaluation system, or the unilateral determination of price and the way of service providing. The focal point of this thesis lies in an analysis of legal status of service providers resulting from the legal relationships that are concluded on digital platforms. Due to the unavailability of the contracts that are the base of these legal relationships, it is the terms and conditions of the particular digital platform providers that are used for the analysis. The labour law regulation is applied to the legal relationships defined in this way focusing on the question, whether the activity of service providers fulfils the characteristics of dependent work. Subsequently,...
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