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VIDEO · 02 JUNE 2026

The EU Platform Work Directive (Video)

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The EU Platform Work Directive introduces sweeping changes for gig economy platforms, establishing a rebuttable presumption of employment, mandating transparency in algorithmic decision-making, and imposing stricter data protection requirements. With Ireland's December 2026 transposition deadline approaching, organizations must begin compliance planning now to navigate worker classification audits, algorithmic governance frameworks, and enhanced data obligations.

IrelandEmployment and HR
Declan MacQuillan
Declan MacQuillan
Ciara McDermott
Ciara McDermott
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Ciara McDermott
I’m Ciara McDermott, and I’m joined by Declan MacQuillan. We’re senior associates in the Employment Group at Arthur Cox, and today we’re going to discuss the EU Platform Work Directive.

Declan MacQuillan
Yeah, so maybe just to set the scene, at its core, the Directive is a response from the EU to the growth of work organised through online platforms. So things like ride-hailing, food delivery apps, and also apps that organise remote or freelance work. There were concerns at an EU level that the existing labour and employment frameworks either weren’t capturing or weren’t keeping up pace with the development of the way that work is organised in this space. And kind of recurring concerns and issues kept arising over things like worker misclassification, the use of opaque automated decision-making processes, and also in relation to data management.

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