Join CICOPA, the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives, for its parallel event “Platform cooperatives and Labour rights in the digital economy” organised in the context of the European Conference “Social Economy: People , Planet, Action” that will take place in San Sebastian, the Social Economy Capital of Spain 2023, on 14 November from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Finnish time).
The objective of our session is to provide the worker cooperatives perspective on why some regulation of the platform work is important, and also the other side of the coin: what is the impact of the lack of regulation on platform cooperatives and cooperatives engaged in platform work.
Agenda:
Introduction & welcome words, Inigo Albizuri, President of CICOPA
Regulating platform work in Spain and in the EU.
Representative of the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Economy
Challenges and labour conditions for platform workers.
Francesca Martinelli, Centro Studi Doc Foundation, Italy
Regulating platform work, the worker cooperatives perspective
Diana Dovgan, Secretary General of CICOPA
The institutional perspective
Representative from the International Labour Organisation (tbc)
Testimonies from platform cooperatives
Osamu Nakano, Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU), Japan
Carlos Ernesto Acero Sánchez, CONFECOOP, Colombia (tbc)
Christian Albero Horton, FECOOTRA and CICOPA Americas, Argentina (tbc)
Q&A
Conclusions
Ana Aguirre (tbc) , President of the ICA Youth Network
