Legal Protection Of Workers’ Rights And Interests On Online Platforms

The rapid progress of Internet information technology provides an opportunity for the development of platform economy,and the new economic model has triggered a new employment pattern,and a large number of network platform workers have emerged in the society.These workers participate in social production practice in a more flexible and diversified way by relying on the Internet platform,presenting new characteristics such as reliance on algorithmic technology in the employment process,flexible and diversified employment subjects,and platform workers having only superficial work autonomy,etc.This new employment model has impacted China’s traditional labor law system and brought a series of new challenges to the protection of platform workers’ rights and interests: the identity of platform workers cannot be clearly identified;the labor intensity and long working hours;and the income of platform workers cannot be clearly identified.The identity of platform workers cannot be clearly identified;labor intensity and long working hours;uncertain risks such as unstable income,high occupational risks and insufficient social security;and many labor disputes between platform and platform workers and inconsistent judicial determination standards.In analyzing the damage to the rights and interests of platform workers,the analysis is carried out both internally and externally.The internal reasons are the large disparity between labor and management and the lack of bargaining power of platform workers;the use of powerful algorithmic technology by platforms to derogate the rights and interests of workers;and the external reasons are the limitations of the current choice of legal protection models and the problems of government intervention mechanisms.In exploring the protection of platform workers’ rights and interests,the research methods of normative analysis,literature research,and cross-disciplinary research are applied,and the final conclusion is that both internal governance and external governance should be approached.In terms of internal governance,we should regulate the labor practices of platforms,reasonably regulate the algorithmic employment of platforms,and ensure the fairness and transparency of algorithmic employment;create a collective consultation system for platform workers to provide a reasonable path for this group to defend their rights.In terms of external governance,from the perspective of law,the government should explore a new mode of platform labor protection and build a new occupational injury protection system;from the perspective of government governance,the government should make full use of policy tools to regulate platform labor and ensure the territoriality and selfconsistency of the external system of government platform labor,and the government should innovate the concept of supervision,implement various initiatives and create a labor inspection system;from the perspective of justice,the government should promote the construction of standardization in the judicial field to protect From the judicial perspective,the government should promote the standardization of the judicial field to protect the rights and interests of platform workers while maintaining the unity and authority of the judiciary...