Dependent self-employment: Trends, challenges and policy responses in the EU

Authors: Colin C Williams Frederic Lapeyre
Date of Publication: 2017

Over the past few decades, there has been recognition that the ‘standard employment relationship’
(SER) of formal, full-time and permanent waged employment is becoming ever less the standard
relationship. Given that the SER has been the key vehicle for allocating rights and social protection,
its diminution poses challenges for the operation of regulatory frameworks and raises issues
regarding working conditions, rights and benefits. [View resource]

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