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A draft EU law determining when workers on platforms like Uber and Deliveroo should be treated as employees failed to win EU member states’ support in a key meeting on Friday. The Platform Work Directive would classify workers on “gig-economy” apps as employees in cases where platforms control factors such as how much money workers are paid or their working hours, or supervise their performance electronically. What was meant to be a final draft of the law on Friday failed to win sufficient support among representatives of the European Union’s 27 member states. The draft was provisionally agree…

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