O trabalho em plataformas digitais e a Proposta de Diretiva da União Europeia: caminhos para uma efetiva tutela transnacional.

This paper aims to analyse the work in digital platforms and the challenges for an effective transnational protection. The essentiality of labour law will be analysed from the perspective of technological transformation, with the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, social networks and the evolution of business models. We will analyse work on digital platforms, characterised by the realisation of intense processes of production of goods and services that are completely outsourced from any traditional productive location. From this scenario, we will analyse the proposed European Union directive, published on 9 December 2021, which, for the first time in the EU context, aims to regulate the different types of work carried out through digital platforms (online platform work and on-location platform work). Starting from the premise that the directive establishes some premises for the correct framing of workers based on the principle of the primacy of reality, the current situation of some EU countries will be analysed: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany; and of other countries at global level: the United Kingdom, China and Brazil. The study will focus on the three fundamental aspects outlined in the proposed directive, in order to investigate the conformity and possible need for adequacy in the national context, for the component countries of the European Union and, in relation to other countries, the current scenario and the discrepant points to be considered, given the transnational nature of work in digital platforms.