Serbia now has two important instruments for regulating platform work, which remains almost entirely unregulated in national labour law: EU Directive 2024/2831 on improving working conditions in platform work and ILO Convention No. 193 on decent work in the platform economy.
Adopted on 12 June 2026, Convention No. 193 is the first binding international instrument specifically dedicated to work in the platform economy. It places platform work within the framework of international labour standards and affirms that work organised through applications, algorithms and digital accounts must comply with the principles of decent work.
The analysis examines what the transposition of the EU Directive and the possible ratification and implementation of Convention No. 193 could change in the domestic legal framework, including Re:People’s proposals for regulating the position of online and location-based platform workers.
The analysis also serves as an introduction to a workshop on Convention No. 193 and its implications for labour law reform in Serbia, which Re:People will host in September. Details will be announced shortly.
This analysis was produced within the project “BRIDGE: Connecting European Standards on Platform Work, Artificial Intelligence Governance and Labour Law Reform in South-East Europe”, supported by the Olof Palme International Center.
