A hybrid attempt to regulate labour : Recent developments under the European Union's legal framework

This chapter analyses the making of the European Commission Guidelines regulating the application of competition law to self-employed persons' collective bargaining and the European Directive regulating platform work. It draws on interviews with European labour representatives that participated in the policymaking process and a legal comparative analysis of the different versions of the Guidelines and the Directive that have been issued by European institutions and discussed by European actors. Furthermore, it reconstructs the perspective of labour representatives on the most contentious points of the two texts and provides a legal analysis of the most controversial aspects of these regulations.