What will a business look like if the platform workers seen everywhere delivering goods and food, operating taxis and delivering domestic services via a digital commercial "platforms" own the platform itself?

The writer maps out how regulators and courts have responded to to platform work.

The PGDip programme seeks to maintain an appropriate balance between legal theory and practical skills. It is directly aligned with academic standards of the University and the Department of Higher Education. Comprising four modules, the content is continuously updated in terms of amendments to labour legislation as well as case law.

How the CENTROW website can be used as a one-stop shop for sharing knowledge and promoting co-operation.

In harnessing existing technologies to further the principle of “dignity of work”, the Digital Platform Co-operative Project believes that the technologies we engage must be fit for purpose in respect of creating access to opportunity, capacity building of domestic workers in their own futures, and providing a suitable technology platform for enabling redistribution of valued assets.

As the world continues to be digitised, and more and more work is organised through online platforms, domestic services have not been untouched. Various platforms offer such services on a commercial (for-profit) basis. The Digital Platform Co-operative Project (DPCP), created by the Social Law Project (SLP) in the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW).

LLoL is one of the projects of the Centre for the Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW) It is one of South Africa’s first digital legal decision-making tools, which came about as a result of cooperation between Arbeidsmarktresearch Uva B.V. (ARR), a unit at the University of Amsterdam, and the university. This interactive programme provides expert information on labour law. It seek

In this piece, the writer speaks about the evolution of digital work and how initiatives such as Fairwork seeks to contribute to the fair regulation of this type of work

Sooner or later, all pandemics are brought to an end. But, until then, they can cause huge damage to society, as COVID-19 is showing day by day. And none are more at risk than non-standard or “precarious” workers – casual workers, independent contractors, all those doing jobs without security of employment and benefits, who generally fall outside the protection of labour law.

If a computer is telling symphony musicians what and when to play, why have a conductor? He or she is only going through the motions while the musicians concentrate on their screens. If this could work with orchestras, what about factories?

More and more workers obtain work through online platforms such as Uber. Can an online platform that links workers and clients be a temporary employment service (TES, or labour broker) for the purposes of labour law?