This policy brief addresses the simultaneity of self-employment and dependency of live-in carers in Austria based on empirical data collected in the frame of the JUSTMIG project.

Understanding the long-term impact of childhood adversity on mental health is crucial, particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging evidence highlights that contextual factors, such as the pandemic, interact with early-life experiences to influence mental health outcomes. However, little is known about how childhood adversity affected mental health across different phases of the pandemic among older adults.

This report presents the findings of the GDPoweR research project conducted in France. The project investigates the potential of data rights as a lever for strengthening collective bargaining and labour protections within the platform economy, particularly for front-line workers.

This Country Report explores how platform workers’ data can be recovered and used to support collective bargaining and monitor the implementation of agreements in the platform economy in Belgium.

This report presents the findings of the Polish case study within the European research project GDPoweR – Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy. It analyses platform work in the ride-hailing and food delivery sectors, focusing on three interconnected areas: the regulatory context and characteristics of platform work, collective bargaining dynamics, and the collection and use of workers’ data by digital labour platforms.