ALT We are committed to Europe’s social model and strongly support efforts to improve working conditions for independent platform workers. The PWD is well intentioned, but it’s clear this is no longer about improving working conditions for platform workers. Instead of providing legal certainty and mandated protections for genuinely self-employed workers, both the Council and Parliament’s positions would likely force 100s of 1000s of people out of work, and push a small minority onto employment contracts they don’t want. As many countries across Europe have demonstrated, there are better ways to uphold European social values without removing the independence and flexibility that the majority of platform workers say they want. This includes sectoral agreements in France and Italy where over 100k platform workers have guaranteed social protections and representation, regardless of the platform they choose to work on. The EU has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set the global standard