The role of time and working hours through the jurisprudence on riders

Abstract

The essay aims at analyzing the Italian and comparative case law on digital platform workers’ classification in order to reflect upon the changing functions of working time in digital work widely considered. The Author, taking into account the difficulties in overcoming the dichotomy subordination-autonomy, believes that it is important to introduce a new notion of working time, in line with the new ways of carrying out work.

Keywords

• working time
• gig economy
• riders
• subordination