In Russia, the share of platform workers increased to 16%: C

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Since 2022, in Russia, from 14.6% to 16%, the share of platforms has increased: C-those who provide their work through online platforms, such as Avito. services, Yandex.GO and Prof.ru, the researcher found out: Nitsa Higher School. Moreover, the share of those for whom the platform employment is the main work has increased to 3.5% from 3.2%. Total platform workers: C in Russia at least 3.7 million. The tutor works most of all through the platforms: ki, IT specialist: ki, taxi driver: ki, loads: tsy and courier: ki. The main work of platform employment is primarily for vulnerable groups of the worker: C, their income is lower than with a traditional employment.

The most dependent on the group’s platform employment, which turn out to be excluded from the traditional labor market: a student: Ki, women with young children, people with disabilities, migrant: Ki and a resident: nitsa of small settlements with a lack of jobs. For these groups, platform employment is often the main one. At the same time, as the researcher notes: for some vulnerable groups, access to platform employment blocks the inequality in access to the Internet in Russia. Minzifra published the latest relevant data in 2020. Then the reliable Internetwas not about more than 25 thousand settlements of about 155 thousand.

The length of the labor week with full employment through the platforms on average is 28.9 hours. Remuneration for such employment on average in 2024 is 48.8 thousand rubles, which is 55% higher than the numbers of 2022 - 31.5 thousand. At the same time, according to Rosstat, in the first quarter of 2024, the average wage in Russia amounted to 78.4 thousand rubles in the average working week in Russia at 38.5 hours . This means that on average, the working hour is platform: Y worker: TSY is paid worse.

What is platform employment and why is it beneficial to employers?

• A significant feature of platform employment is that the platforms usually do not accept people to work as hired: C, but conclude one -time contracts with them as independent counterparties: Kami. In Russia, for example, they are decorated as self -employed or individual entrepreneur: nits.

• In reality, the employment: the Platforma CA, as a rule, works on a long -term basis in the same company - just as if it were: but was: a hired worker: pl. The only difference is that with this method of registration, the employer is not obliged to observe a complete set of labor rights.

• So, “self -employed: Aya” does not have the right to index the salary, to paid leave and sick leave, is not insured of an accident, it can be arbitrarily fined: A or dismissed: A (in the form of non -term contact) and cannot be represented by a trade union in collective negotiations. Moreover, he: and bears the same, and often more responsibility to the employer.

• Works: Plates of platforms in different countries are ensuring that they are either recognized as hired or grant them the same rights. So, in the European Union, trade unions of platform workers: C has reached a preliminary agreement on social guarantees.

• On January 9, 2024, the US Department of Labor ordered some groups of workers to equate: Ts Platforms with employees: TsAM. It has not yet entered into force, and some platforms, including Uber and Lyft, said that in their case this norm will probably be not applicable. In the state of California, employers are obliged to prove that their workers: TSIs are indeed independent counterparties: kami, and do not carry out employment work. Uber is trying to challenge this law in court.

• In Belgium, the court recognized 28 courier: to the online application of Delivero by hired workers: Tsami. They filed an appropriate lawsuit with the support of trade unions. And the court in the UK refused to take a similar step.

• In Russia, there is a courier trade union , fighting for improving working conditions and increasing the level of payment of the delivery: c, engaged in platforms. The head of the trade union Kirill Ukrainian was judged under a criminal article on repeated violation of the rules of public events. He organized strikes and mass pickets of courier: K. Thanks to this, the courier: the Cam was able to mitigate the system of fines, the restoration of the dismissed college: toads, the payment of detained salaries and the fulfillment of other requirements.

• Driver: Taxi and automotive delivery platforms in Russia do not have a specialized trade union, but sometimes they go to spontaneous ones - and sometimes successful - strikes.

• Worker: TS of the Russian Platform "Yandex.Dera" entered strikes in Yerevan and Astana . They also demanded a reduction in commissions.