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The ILO adopted Convention No. 193, binding all platform companies to guarantee fair compensation, algorithmic transparency, and human review of employment-affecting automated decisions for gig economy workers. Tech leaders must redesign automated governance: workers now have rights to written justification for algorithmic suspensions or deductions, fundamentally reshaping compliance architecture and operational costs for any platform-based service globally.

….regulation to affect ride-hailing drivers, couriers, online content moderators and others

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has formally adopted Convention No. 193 concerning Decent Work in the Platform Economy.

The treaty establishes the first-ever binding international legal framework explicitly designed to protect the rights of millions of gig economy workers worldwide, from ride-hailing drivers and couriers to online content moderators and data labellers.

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The new convention targets systemic vulnerabilities, and sets strict global baselines for fair compensation, algorithmic transparency, and employment classification, fundamentally reshaping the future of digital work.

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ILO adopts treaty to regulate jobs in the digital economy - Businessday NG

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has formally adopted Convention No. 193 concerning Decent Work in the Platform Economy.....

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….regulation to affect ride-hailing drivers, couriers, online content moderators and others

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has formally adopted Convention No. 193 concerning Decent Work in the Platform Economy.

Read also:Entrepreneurship, digital skills panacea to growing unemployment, stakeholders tell students

ILO adopts treaty to regulate jobs in the digital economy - Businessday NG

ILO adopts treaty to regulate jobs in the digital economy - Businessday NG

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