PLATFORM WORK IN TIMES OF CRISIS Fairwork Lebanon Ratings 2023

In this vein, while deposits in the country’s shock in 2019, which led the Lebanese Pound to lose banking sector had reached three times the size of the most of its value, left the banking sector insolvent, and economy in 2014, the economy was stagnant and jobless.5 the government defaulting on its debt. [...] In essence, a freelancing contractual between you and the Company or an offer of employment relationship should be symmetrical for both parties: the […].”38 In the same article of the work contract, the platform independent worker (delivery workers and riders) may dangles the possibility of employment to incentivise workers have few entitlements from the employer, but in return the to be disciplin. [...] conditions (one point) The terms and conditions governing platform work are not The platform must satisfy the following: always clear and accessible to workers.51 To achieve this • Adequate equipment and training is provided to protect point, the platform must demonstrate that workers are able 28 to understand, agree to, and access the conditions of their exempt the platform from liability for wor. [...] • The party contracting with the worker must be identified in the contract, and subject to the law of the place in • In case platform labour is mediated by subcontractors: which the worker works. [...] The platform implements a reliable mechanism to monitor and ensure that the subcontractor is living up to • The contract/terms & conditions are presented in full in the standards expected from the platform itself regarding clear and comprehensible language that all workers could working conditions.