On Tuesday June 21st, the Universitat de València presented a report about work on digital platforms in the Valencian Community, carried out in collaboration with the public employment service Labora.

The report, commissioned by the Valencian Training and Employment Service (Labora) to the Universitat de València, concludes that 12% of the Valencian population works through digital platforms. The presentation of this report was attended, along with the regional secretary for Employment, Enric Nomdedéu, by the professor of Labour Law and Social Security at the Universitat de València, Adrián Todolí, and the full professor of Social Psychology, José María Peiró.

The regional secretary for Employment, Enric Nomdedéu, pointed out that the study carried out by the Universitat de València responds to the fact that digital platforms "are a completely new world, with special characteristics that we were unaware of, and we, as a public administration, have the obligation to influence those issues that allow people to find work and companies to access the workers they need, for which we must be aware of the new realities in the framework of labour relations”.

One of the conclusions of this study was the difficulty that people with a low level of education have in accessing these new employment niches, which is why the regional secretary pointed out that the challenge facing Labora is "to train these people to understand this new framework of labour relations. We are going to get down to work immediately to prevent these new labour requirements, such as technification, from leaving these people even further behind".

In his turn, Adrián Todolí stressed that "the sector is not limited to riders, who represent less than six percent of digital platform workers, but is much broader". In this sense, the majority of platform workers are "qualified professionals who need the digital platform to be able to work. The platform imposes its conditions and we have to see if they are within the legal framework or not".

The Universitat de València lecturer pointed out that 75% of these workers, according to the data, "are still looking for work and almost all of them rely on the public employment service to get it". In this sense, he noted that they represent an opportunity for Labora as it can offer them specific training: "It is necessary to offer training in basic digital skills, as people with a low level of education do not have access to them and are excluded, to have an impact on efficient regulation in terms of false self-employment, to offer them specific training in occupational hazards, as a third of them recognise that their work involves risks, to promote quality internet access in rural areas and the need for the public administration to cover the needs that arise from all of this".

Finally, full professor José María Peiró stressed that this world of work "is here to stay". In this context, he emphasised that the public administration must check that this new form of work is carried out under quality conditions and check the psychosocial risks that it may entail.
Here is the video of the presentation with the interventions of the Regional Secretary for Employment and the two lecturers:

• Resum executiu de l'informe “El treball en plataformes digitals en la Comunitat Valenciana”
• Informe complet “El treball en plataformes digitals en la Comunitat Valenciana”

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