Digital labour platforms and labour protection in China

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The growth of digital labour platforms worldwide creates both opportunities and challenges to the world of work as well as the traditional approaches of regulating work and setting minimum standards. This paper explores the implications of the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in China and the potential applicability of existing laws and regulations to platform work. It begins by defining platform work and reviewing its scope, composition and characteristics, with a focus on working conditions in China, followed by analysis on how labour regulation is complicated by the platform business models. In analysing the existing regulatory frameworks, the regulatory gaps become apparent. The paper concludes with policy options based on relevant international standards and the approaches to regulating platforms in other countries and the Chinese context, including its economic and policy environment as well as its industrial relations system.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-2-032239-0
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ILO Working Paper ; No. 11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: informal employment ; non-standard forms of employment ; digital labour ; working conditions ; labour contracts ; labour law ; labour legislation ; social protection ; informal economy ; gig economy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Zhou, Irene
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): International Labour Organization (ILO)
• (where): Geneva
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/263077
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET