Publications by Type: European Centre reports

2025

Annual Report of Activities 2025

European Centre reports

The Annual Report of Activities 2025 provides an overview of the European Centre's activities, research projects, publications, webinars, peer review meetings, trainings and media presence in the area of social welfare.

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Comparative Report. GDPoweR – Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy

European Centre reports

This report compares collective bargaining in the platform economy (ride-hailing, food-delivery) and the collection and use of worker data by companies across Austria, Belgium, France, Poland and Spain. As methodological innovation, data collected by workers through GDPR requests is used to analyse platforms' processing of workers' personal data as well as to monitor the implementation of collective agreements.

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GDPoweR Country Report France

European Centre reports

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.

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GDPoweR Country Report Belgium

European Centre reports

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.

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GDPoweR Country Report Poland

European Centre reports

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.

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