Recital 14

While existing Union legal acts provide for certain general safeguards, challenges in platform work require some further specific measures. In order to adequately frame the development of platform work in a sustainable manner, it is necessary for the Union to set minimum rights for platform workers and rules to improve the protection of the personal data of persons performing platform work to address those challenges. Measures facilitating the determination of the correct employment status of persons performing platform work in the Union should be introduced, and the transparency with regard to platform work should be improved, including in cross-border situations. In addition, persons performing platform work should be provided with rights, with a view to promoting transparency, fairness, human oversight, safety and accountability. Those rights should also be provided with a view to protecting workers and improving working conditions in algorithmic management, including the exercise of collective bargaining. This should be done with a view to improving legal certainty and aiming to achieve a level playing field between digital labour platforms and offline providers of services and supporting the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms in the Union.