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The increase in the group of atypical workers means that their social security protection needs reviewing. How far should we go in approaching social security for self-employed workers, flex workers, crowd workers and all new employment relationships differently? This will depend on the number of elements in respect to which the atypical employment relationship differs from the established standard: the full-time employee with a permanent employment contract. What we propose is a social security system that is sufficiently flexible in its implementation to give the different groups of workers an equal place and at the same time maintain a financially sustainable social security system providing sufficient social security protection for typical and atypical workers.
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The authors are involved in the same project at Tilburg University (see footnote 2). This text is based upon an earlier publication presented at the occasion of the seminar “Automation. Jobs and the Future of Work” (Riga, 23 January 2019 — New Direction): “Digitalisation of work and its impact on social security. Platform work as an emerging atypical work form”.
Dr. Saskia Montebovi is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Alberto Barrio Fernandez is PhD Candidate at the Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands.
Prof. Dr. Paul Schoukens is Professor at the Institute for Social Law at the KU Leuven and at Tilburg University.
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Montebovi, S., Fernandez, A.B. & Schoukens, P. New Work Forms: How to Integrate Them in Our Social Insurances. Wirtschaftsdienst 100 (Suppl 1), 48–53 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2615-5
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