Abusive dynamics of web-based platforms dedicated to online microtasks and potential avenues for protection

Abstract

The objective of this study is to highlight a multifactorial and transnational reality, still atypical for the Spanish legal system, which must be differentiated and addressed: the work of web-based digital platforms workers dedicated to online microtasks as a new form of job precariousness. The challenges which derives from the obligation to transpose Directive (EU) 2024/2831 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on improving working conditions in platform work will be addressed from three main perspectives, enabling the first steps to confront this problem: the legislator, the Labor and Social Security Inspection and the social agents.