Employees, Workers, and the 'Sharing Economy': Changing Practices and Changing Concepts in the United Kingdom
Employees, Workers, and the 'Sharing Economy': Changing Practices and Changing Concepts in the United Kingdom
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雇员、工人和“共享经济”：英国不断变化的实践和不断变化的观念
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10.2139/ssrn.2932757
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2017
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Jeremias Adams
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作者：
M. Freedland;Jeremias Adams
近年来，英国劳动力经济的实践和形象发生了根本性的转变，包括所谓的“共享经济”或“零工经济”的大幅增长，更好地称为“按需经济”。从这一出发点出发，有人认为，联合王国劳动/就业法用来分析和描述在劳动力市场这一迅速增长的部门中建立、订立和运作的工作关系和工作合同的一套概念似乎发生了相应的变化。最近两个备受瞩目的就业法庭在Uber和Citysprint案件中的裁决，以及上诉法院在同一领域在Pimlico Plumbers案件中的裁决，都证实了立法创造了第三个中间类别的“工人”，他们受益于一套就业权利，这些权利比雇员享有的权利更有限，但仍然非常重要。这种劳动法新的三方工作关系分类法的结晶在很大程度上发生在按需经济的背景下，对该部门的人有利。然而，这是一个相当脆弱的概念结构。
Recent years have seen a radical shift in the practice and profile of the labour economy in the United Kingdom consisting in the considerable growth of the so-called ‘Sharing Economy’ or ‘Gig Economy’, better identified as the ‘On-demand Economy’. From that starting point, it is argued that a corresponding change seems to have occurred in the set of concepts which the labour/ employment law of the United Kingdom uses to analyse and to characterize the work relations and work contracts which are created, made, and operated within this rapidly growing sector of the labour market. Two recent high-profile Employment Tribunal decisions in the Uber and Citysprint cases, and a decision of the Court of Appeal in this same area in the Pimlico Plumbers case have served to confirm the legislative creation of a third intermediate category of ‘workers’ who benefit from a set of employment rights which is more limited than that enjoyed by employees but which is nevertheless very important. This crystallization of labour law’s newly tripartite taxonomy of work relations has occurred very largely in the context of the on-demand economy, and is beneficial to those located in that sector. This is, however, a rather fragile conceptual structure.