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ARTICLE · 17 OCTOBER 2018

Employment Alert – October 2018

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In the era of society's digitalization and uberization, you are solicited by an increasing number of digital platforms offering services allowing to contact various independent workers

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Frédérique Meslay-Caloni
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Caution with respect to digital platforms

In the era of society's digitalization and uberization, you are solicited by an increasing number of digital platforms offering services allowing to contact various independent workers: self-entrepreneurs, freelance workers, etc.

The tool is appealing, the platform highlights its ability to select the best profiles and simplify your administrative operations for optimum linkage.

Careful however not to be too hasty.

The regulation resulting from the Labor Law of August 8, 2016 in this field may have been understood by some as giving carte blanche to the platforms.

However, the purpose of the Labor Law is not to legitimize using these platforms but to impose on some of them (those which fix the price for the service rendered) social responsibility obligations with respect to their independent workers, such as the obligation to take out insurance for them against the risks of work-related accidents and occupational

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