Features of social and legal protection of employees on labor platforms and directions of formation of regulatory policy of ukraine under conditions of martial law
The professional scientific and practical journal “Industry Economy” published the article “Problems of social and legal protection of platform employees and priorities of the regulatory policy of Ukraine in the conditions of martial law“, prepared by employees of the Department of Economic Problems of Social Policy of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Candidate of Sociology, Assoc. Pankova O.V. and M.Sc. Kasperovych O.Yu.
The article explores and reveals the problems and opportunities for creating an effective system of social and legal protection of workers in the platform segment of employment in Ukraine, grounding on the analysis and generalization of results of the expert survey, in the preparation and conduct of which the authors were directly involved. The conditions of the military conflict and the needs of postwar reconstruction of Ukraine are also taken into account.
The main reasons hindering the legal and social protection of platform workers are identified.
The key ones among them are the following: legal uncertainty of the status of subjects of labor platforms (both platform workers and labor platforms themselves); low opportunities for collective representation of the interests of employees on the platforms; reluctance of employees to officially register and declare their income. Also, a set of factors of a social, informational, communicative, organizational, managerial and technical nature was revealed. These factors arise in the process of interaction of the subjects of the platform economy and increase the social and legal insecurity of the platform employees. The obtained results were interpreted by the authors in the context of the martial law in Ukraine.
It is stated that the basic prerequisite for the development of an effective system of social and legal protection of platform employees is the creation of a legally regulated system of interaction
Oksana V. Pankova,
Phd in Sociologics, Associate Professor
Institute of Industrial Economics of NAS of Ukraine
2 Maria Kapnist Street, Kyiv, 03057, Ukraine
E-mail: pankovaiep@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2003-8415;
OlexandrYu. Kasperovich,
Junior Researcher
Institute of Industrial Economics of the NAS of Ukraine,
2 Maria Kapnist Street, Kyiv, 03057, Ukraine
E-mail: a_kasp@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1169-9681