Two weeks ago, the IAAEU Summer School for Young Researchers in European Labour Law took place for the first time at the University of Trier. This event brought together students, PhD candidates, and postdocs from across the EU interested in labour law issues to discuss questions regarding Platform work in European labour law and develop their own ideas.

On the second day, Robert Räuchle from the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs held a lecture on the implementation of the EU Platform-Directive in national law. He discussed the directive with regard to competences, timelines and drafting. Afterwards, the learnings from the lecture were implemented into the group work from the previous day.

The discussions revolved around the main challenges when implementing the Platform Work Directive. In a next step, the groups drafted a short model provision for the implementation of the legal presumption of employment under the directive.

The close integration of lectures and practical group work made it possible to analyse the directive in detail and to understand its complexity within the EU.