EU Platform Work Directive: which countries have implemented?

Directive (EU) 2024/2831, aimed at improving working conditions in platform work, was adopted on 14 October 2024, and EU member states have until 2 December 2026 to transpose it into national law.

The Directive has three main goals: helping to correctly determine the employment status of people performing platform work, promoting transparency, fairness, human oversight, safety and accountability in algorithmic management, and improving transparency around platform work, including in cross-border situations.

Its most significant feature is a rebuttable legal presumption of employment: where facts indicating control and direction exist, as defined by national law, collective agreements or established practice in a given member state, the relationship between a digital labour platform and the person performing the work is legally presumed to be an employment relationship. If the platform wants to challenge that presumption, it carries the burden of proving the relationship is not actually one of employment. In other words, the onus shifts to the platform, not the worker.

The Directive also introduces new safeguards around algorithmic management, including additional protections on the use of worker data, restrictions on processing certain categories of personal data, and a requirement that workers be told when automated monitoring or decision-making systems are being used. It applies to anyone performing platform work in the EU, regardless of where the platform itself is established.

Greece is still in the early stages. The Ministry of Labour set up an expert committee on 22 May 2026 to oversee transposition, and the committee was expected to deliver its report by the end of July 2026, though further updates from the Ministry are still awaited. It’s worth noting that Greece already has relevant legislation in this space, Law No. 4808/2021, under which digital platform workers can be classified as independent contractors if four statutory criteria are cumulatively met – effectively creating a presumption of self-employment, which runs in the opposite direction to the Directive’s presumption of employment. The existing Greek framework also provides enhanced protections and rights for self-employed platform workers.

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