As many as 4.1 million gig workers in the European Union edged closer to full employment status on Thursday, when the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, released draft legislation that would effectively grant them employee rights.
Currently, the burden of proof of employment status in the EU rests on the gig workers themselves, which has forced them to go to court in order to prove that they are employees. But under the law proposed by the commission, that burden would be...
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