Digital Labour Platform Policy Tracker
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Digital Labour Platform Policy Tracker: a global policy tracker (a database of legislation, policies and decisions, with a collective bargaining agreements component and a third category, Other initiatives). Operator: International Labour Organization (ILO), within its Observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy. Its unit: a national or regional legislative or policy initiative on platform work; in the CBA component, a collective bargaining agreement between trade unions and platform companies; in Other initiatives, a regional or local initiative (guidelines, protocols). Whose labor: work and employment on digital labour platforms.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a new global policy tracker to provide a comprehensive overview of legislative initiatives concerning digital labour platforms.
In its own words: https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/ilo-launches-global-policy-tracker-digital-labour-platforms, read 2026-10-29
Who supplies, who directs, who gains
Supplies the laborworkers on digital labour platforms
Directs itplatform companies, with the automated decision-making systems (algorithms) the tracked rules address; governments regulate and trade unions bargain
Receives the gains, bears the costsnot recorded as outcomes; the tracked rules address remuneration, social security, occupational safety and health, and contract termination
Each as the resource itself records it. Where it records nothing, the census says so.
What it records
| Intersections | Worker power: bargaining, organizing, consent, refusal, contestation and enforceable protections; AI governing labor: hiring, surveillance, scheduling, quotas, evaluation and discipline; Distribution of gains and losses: wages, employment, workload, credit, ownership, and who captures productivity gains |
| Kind of evidence | policy trackernegotiated provision |
| Unit of record | a national or regional legislative or policy initiative on platform work; in the CBA component, a collective bargaining agreement between trade unions and platform companies; in Other initiatives, a regional or local initiative (guidelines, protocols) op |
| Whose labor | work and employment on digital labour platforms |
| Method | compilation of national and regional laws, policies and decisions, and of collective bargaining agreements, described by content, scope and legal status |
| Coverage | geography: global for legislation: the home page grid lists 33 countries; collective bargaining agreements 'publicly available in Europe' (the home page; the CBA expansion item says within the European Union, and the grid lists a Swiss agreement); period: launched 14 August 2025; CBA component added 7 November 2025 |
| What it finds | none stated as findings: the tracker is presented as an overview of regulations for governments, employers' and workers' representatives |
| Its stated limits | coverage is still being expanded: the next phase plans wider geographic and thematic coverage and the integration of judicial decisions; the tracker currently focuses on legislative developments worldwide and includes collective bargaining agreements publicly available in Europe; agreements in other regions and judicial decisions are to be developed |
op the resource's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
What this evidence can settle
Can answer
- which jurisdictions have legislative or policy initiatives on platform work, and on which issues (employment status, remuneration, algorithms, working time, data, safety, termination, collective bargaining)
- which publicly available platform-work collective agreements exist in Europe, at what level, and what they cover
- which regional and local initiatives (guidelines, protocols) on platform work it lists
Cannot answer
- how the rules are enforced or what they change for platform workers
- judicial decisions, before the planned next phase
- what the individual records hold, which this row has not opened (it has read the home page only)
In the worked questions
Where it meets Labor Vector
rd The tracker records the legal and bargained rules laid over platform work, including rules on automated decision-making systems; it meets the directionality stack at the layer of rules on who may direct labor and how. None stated on DSL, task-origin or user labor drag.
Entity
| Canonical name | Digital Labour Platform Policy Tracker |
| Also known as | Global Policy Tracker on Digital Labour Platforms, Policy Tracker on Digital Labour Platforms, Digital Labour Platform Tracker, Digital Labour Policy Tracker |
| Address | https://digitallabour.ilo.org/ obs |
| Operator | International Labour Organization (ILO), within its Observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy |
| Founded | 2025-08-14 |
| Kind | global policy tracker (a database of legislation, policies and decisions, with a collective bargaining agreements component and a third category, Other initiatives) op |
| Lifecycle | active — launched 14 August 2025; CBA component added 7 November 2025; continuous updating with new legislation and agreements announced |
| Count | 33 countries; 58 legislation records, 15 collective bargaining agreements and 11 other initiatives (the home page's country grid, counted by script) (as of 2026-10-29 (the home page as saved)) obs |
| Data access | an online database at digitallabour.ilo.org, browsable by country and by its three categories; the CBA component allows filtering by country and platform type op |
| Licence | not stated in the saved sources (the ILO pages carry © 1996-2026 International Labour Organization) op |
| Versions and dates | launched: 2025-08-14; cba component: 2025-11-07; home page counts: 2026-10-29; convention 193: 2026-06; observatory page: items dated to 2026-10-29; read: 2026-10-29 |
| Observation | 2026-10-29: read |
Relations
Neighbours
Captures: the composition layer's account
The /non row
Evidenceevery field's quote, its source and the hash of the saved copy26
- self description op
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a new global policy tracker to provide a comprehensive overview of legislative initiatives concerning digital labour platforms.
- kind op
Global tracker of laws, policies, and decisions on platform work
- launched op
14 August 2025
- audience op
The global policy tracker is designed to equip governments, and employers’ and workers' representatives, with information to facilitate discussions and foster decent work in the platform economy.
- issues op
It will shed light on how different jurisdictions address issues such as employment status classification, remuneration, automated decision-making systems (algorithms), working time, workers’ personal data and privacy, occupational safety and health, contract termination, including suspension and collective bargaining, among others, in the context of platform work.
- unit op
By consolidating information on national and regional legislative and policy initiatives
- part of op
As a key feature of the ILO Observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy
- url obs
the 'Click here' link of the saved launch item (and the Observatory's 'Explore' link) points to https://digitallabour.ilo.org/
- cba date op
7 November 2025
- cba unit op
This new resource offers an overview of agreements concluded between trade unions and platform companies across various countries and sectors.
- cba coverage op
It provides details on each agreement’s content, scope, and legal status, helping users understand whether the agreements operate at the national, sectoral, or enterprise level within the European Union.
- data access op
allows users to filter information by country and platform type, and to explore descriptive summaries across a range of thematic areas.
- limit op
Looking ahead, the next phase of the project will focus on expanding geographic and thematic coverage, integrating judicial decisions related to the platform economy, and continuously updating the database with new legislation, and collective bargaining agreements.
- observatory op
Global policy tracker providing a comprehensive overview of legislative initiatives concerning digital labour platforms.
- observatory op
It aims to support governments and social partners in understanding and managing the digital transformation of work.
- observatory ai jobs op
ILO researchers developed a methodology to estimate the effects of generative AI on existing occupations.
- license op
© 1996-2026 International Labour Organization (ILO)
- home self description op
This policy tracker aims to provide a comprehensive overview of global policies, legislation, collective bargaining agreements, and judicial decisions related to digital labour platforms.
- home coverage op
Currently, the tracker focuses on legislative developments worldwide, and includes collective bargaining agreements which are publicly available in Europe.
- home limit op
The tracker will further develop the collective bargaining agreements in other regions as well as the judicial decisions.
- categories op
Legislation Collective Bargaining Agreements Other initiatives Search
- count obs
the home page's country grid (Australia to Uruguay) counted by script: 33 countries; 58 Legislation, 15 Collective Bargaining Agreements, 11 Other initiatives. The page's list of recent legislation also names Argentina (Labour Modernisation Act), which the grid does not list
- count sample op
Italy 1 Legislation 5 Collective Bargaining Agreements 7 Other initiatives
- swiss cba op
Multiparty agreement for Swiss couriers Country: Switzerland Level: Company Date of agreement: 2019
- other initiative op
Tuscany Guidelines for Digital Platform Riders Country: Italy Level: Regional Date of initiative: 2021
- convention op
In June 2026, the International Labour Conference adopted the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, 2026 (No. 193).
Negative tagswhat it is not4
- NOT a measure of platform workers' conditions
- NOT a court-decision database yet: judicial decisions are planned
- the CBA component covers agreements publicly available in Europe
- NOT the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, 2026 (No. 193), adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2026, a distinct instrument presented on the ILO's digital labour platforms page
Sourcesevery source read, with its date and hash5
Not yet checkedwhat remains to read3
- the tracker application beyond its home page (read 2026-10-29 from the /non composer's saved copy): its individual records, their fields and any licence
- the CBA records themselves
- whether judicial decisions have since been added
Cite this record
Lee Sharks, ed. "Digital Labour Platform Policy Tracker." Labor Vector meta-aggregator, laborvector.org, compiled 2026-10-29. https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/ilo-platform-policy-tracker
Record https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/ilo-platform-policy-tracker · entity https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/ilo-platform-policy-tracker#entity · the census as data
@misc{lv-iloplatformpolicytracker2026,
editor = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {Digital Labour Platform Policy Tracker},
howpublished = {Labor Vector meta-aggregator, laborvector.org},
year = {2026},
note = {Compiled 2026-10-29; every field sourced and dated},
url = {https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/ilo-platform-policy-tracker}
}