THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE FUTURE PROSPECTS BETWEEN EMPLOYED AND SELF-EMPLOYED WORK.

Technological innovations have increased the number of self-employed workers within the Union bringing changes to the labor market, especially in the last two decades, this has also been done at European level. Given the interest of the European institutions, this contribution aims to explore the role of European labor law in broadening the scope of application of protections and rights to self-employment. The contrast between subordinate work and self-employment is one of the topics of greatest interest to labor law doctrine. Many, both in the past and recently, have questioned the imbalance of protection that sees the employed worker as the privileged beneficiary of protective institutions, while the latter is excluded from most of them. Specifically, the research deals with the classification of self-employment, proposing the introduction of an intermediate category in European labor law. The latter is considered a privileged tool for raising the level of protection of these workers who are operationally and functionally integrated into the client company and increasingly frequent in the job market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]