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• The Contractual Framework of the Exploitation of Workers by Employers, in the Light of the First Hungarian Platform Case

  135-151

  Bernadett Solymosi-Szekeres

  Tamás Prugberger

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  163

  In the first part of the paper, the authors distinguish between two main forms of working contracts: the traditional one and the one established through an electronic platform. In both cases, if the work is of a fixed (contingent) or more informal nature, an employment relationship exists. The former is a typical employment relationship, while the latter is atypical. Suppose the long-term client/agent becomes an employer and the dependency on it is even looser. In that case, the employee may become a permanent contractor/agent, but this is different in substance from the ad hoc contractor/agent relationship. It should therefore be regulated separately in the Civil Code, together with the employment contract. In the second part of the paper, the authors analyze a judgment in a lawsuit concerning a courier service for the delivery of food through an electronic platform intermediary, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the courier service provider was in a contractor/agent relationship and not in an employment relationship, as qualified by the Court of Cassation. However, the authors argue that the Court of Cassation’s position is also acceptable, which would allow for the classification of dependent self-employment arising from a formal self-employment.

• Working Through Internet in Hungarian Law. Regulation Instead of Banning?

  83-95

  Tamás Gyulavári

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  495

  Working through digital platforms and apps is a new and rare form of work in Hungary. The spread of digital work is quite new all over the world and also part of the wider trend of precarious forms of work. Hungarian labour law faces serious challenges regarding crowdsourcing and working via apps. The main question is how to insert these new forms of work into the existing labour law framework. These new forms may hardly be considered as employment relationships due to the serious differences. Self-employment cannot be the solution either, since it would leave workers without any employment protection. Therefore, regulation of digital work is unavoidable, even if its details are far from clear for the moment.

• Digitization at Work: Expanding Horizons with Loopholes

  61-80

  István Horváth

  Zoltán Petrovics

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  743

  The focus of the study is on the emergence and spread of digitization in employment. In this context, the study presents the forms of work that use digitization. On the other hand, it describes the labour market effects of digitalization. The study looks in detail at how COVID-19 has changed the role of teleworking and the home office in employment. This is followed by the presentation of the Hungarian labour law regulation, which deals exclusively with telework. The study makes two proposals to address the codification gap. On the one hand, in connection with application-based work, the introduction of the status of a person with a similar legal status to an employee, which was regulated in the draft of the Labour Code. On the other hand, to impose employer obligations (retraining, job offers) in connection with the spread of automation and robotics in order to prevent dismissal.