Episode #9 with Jan Drahokoupil, COVID19 and platform workers, what rights and protections? A look into Czechia

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we look at the struggle of platform workers during the COVID19 pandemic with Jan Drahokoupil, senior researcher at the ETUI. From the issue of health and safety at the workplace to the recent strikes in the Amazon factories in the US and in Europe, Jan talks us through what the EU is doing in this field.

Before the Covid19 crisis: estimates on the extent of platform work (according to ETUI) found that a significant share of the population in Europe has some experience with platform work, but it probably did not exceed 20% of adults by 2019 (https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Working-Papers/Digital-labour-in-central-and-eastern-Europe-evidence-from-the-ETUI-Internet-and-Platform-Work-Survey).

Finally, Jan talks to us about his role as a Member of the Economic advisory board of the Crisis response team of the Czech government. We get to know what is the Czech Republic doing to fight the crisis and sustain its economy and workers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the E2I podcast, Voices on the World of Work.
0:07.5	This podcast from the European Trade Union Institute offers new perspectives, debates and conversations
0:13.5	about ongoing research and education on social Europe, workers' participation, health and safety,
0:20.4	the wider labor movement, and the World
0:22.8	of Work.
0:23.7	This is It2i Podcast.
0:34.9	Hello and welcome to E2I podcast, Voices on the World of Work.
0:39.7	This is episode 9, COVID-19 and platform workers with rights and protections, looking into Czechia.
0:51.3	I'm Elisa, communication officer at E2I, and today I'll be joined in by Jan Raocupio, Senior Researcher at DETI.
1:00.0	Hi, Jan.
1:01.0	Hello, Lisa. How's it going?
1:04.0	Good. How are you doing?
1:06.0	Well, not too bad.
1:08.0	Today with you, Jan, we will be talking about platform workers,
1:14.6	mainly because you've been substantially working on the gig economy
1:19.5	and especially on platform workers in the recent years.
1:23.9	And we would like to talk about it with you because platform workers we have been seeing during this pandemic have become essential workers.
1:35.3	Suddenly, there are in groceries, preparing packages, delivering packages at our doors have become, yeah, essential parts of our economy.
1:48.9	They were also already before, but now everybody is talking about it.
1:52.8	So they also become more visible to the general public.
1:59.1	On one hand, these workers, it is also true that these workers are demanding more health and safety protections.
2:06.9	So your wages, we have been seeing especially in the US, with several strikes for the first time in the Amazon factories, for instance.
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