Uberização do trabalho

• Autor(a) principal: Ó, Juliete Lima do
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/141144
• topic: Uberização do trabalho; Gig economy; Economia de Plataforma; Indústria 4.0. Lei Uber; Work uberization; Platform economy; Industry 4.0; Uber law; Direito

This work analyses the real legal environment of “partner” workers laboring for digital platform companies, such as Uber, Uber eats, Glovo, amongst others in Portugal. To better understand how this new business model has been getting attention, as well as traction in the current situation it is necessary to approach how the industry 4.0 associated with new Information Technologies and the dissemination of the Internet in the Age of Information have provided crucial tool for the growth and consolidation of the Platform Economy. Many drivers and deliverers, who provide their services to these collaborative economy companies, see this new way of working as a way of entrepreneurship in this business context we are living. This is, they believe that the “freedom” and “flexibility” to manage their own work, comes from working a desired schedule without receiving order from an employer. In reality, they are globally defined as precarious and explorer workers laboring for a platform company, that control their “partners” via computer algorithms, in real time at every moment, boost their workload. We will highlight how Uber works within this new economic model, since this company was worldly known for creating this type of work that has been degrading the labor relationships between the employee and the employer. Lastly, Portugal was one of the first countries to have engaged efforts to legislate the activity of drivers working directly for the digital platforms by means of passenger transportation, known by the 45/2018 lay. This way, we will analyze the most relevant decisions that have been taken internationally and how they impact the Portuguese labor laws concerning the relationships between drivers connected to digital platforms. With this in mind, can we say that the Portuguese lay is able to frame these professionals as dependent employees?