Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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325. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline to transpose the EU Platform Workers Directive into Irish law; the legislative pathway his Department envisages for the transposition; if he favours pre-legislative scrutiny of the heads of a Bill in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65771/25]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work Directive entered into force on 1 December 2024. EU Member States have until 2 December 2026 to transpose the Directive into national law.

The Directive is complex and wide ranging. It seeks to ensure people working though digital labour platforms have the correct legal employment status that corresponds to their actual working arrangements, enabling them to benefit from the employment rights they are entitled to.

The Directive also aims to regulate the use of algorithms by digital labour platforms. The Directive will make the use of algorithms in human resources management in platform work more transparent, ensuring that automated systems are monitored by qualified staff, and that workers have the right to contest automated decisions. The Directive also imposes substantial limitations on the processing of personal data by these systems.

transposition forum with relevant government stakeholders to review the consultation outcomes and discuss transposition measures.

My Department is also represented at the EU Official Expert Group on the Transposition of the Directive which has been established by the European Commission. This Group has met seven times to date and will meet a final time in December to approve the report. The Group will issue a final report on transposition by the end of 2025 which will be an important source of guidance for Member States.

Once these measures have been fully considered by all relevant government stakeholders, the Department will set out a clear and definitive legislative pathway. Work on the transposition of the Platform Work Directive remains ongoing, and the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment are committed to progressing it without delay.The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment has recently completed consultations with Government Departments, and the public consultation process has also concluded. In the coming weeks, the Department will convene a

Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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326. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the means by which his Department intends to take account of the 2023 Supreme Court “Karshan ruling” when transposing the EU Platform Workers Directive into law; whether the five step framework in that ruling will be applied to the determination of the employment status of platform workers and those working in the gig economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65772/25]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work Directive entered into force on 1 December 2024. EU Member States have until 2 December 2026 to transpose the Directive into national law.

The Directive is complex and wide ranging. It seeks to ensure people working though digital labour platforms have the correct legal employment status that corresponds to their actual working arrangements, enabling them to benefit from the employment rights they are entitled to.

The Directive also aims to regulate the use of algorithms by digital labour platforms. The Directive will make the use of algorithms in human resources management in platform work more transparent, ensuring that automated systems are monitored by qualified staff, and that workers have the right to contest automated decisions. The Directive also imposes substantial limitations on the processing of personal data by these systems.

The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment has recently completed consultations with Government Departments, and the public consultation process has also concluded. In the coming weeks, the Department will convene a transposition forum with relevant government stakeholders to review the consultation outcomes and discuss transposition measures.

It is anticipated that the ruling of the Supreme Court in the Domino’s Pizza case (Revenue Commissioners v. Karshan (Midlands) Ltd. T/A Domino’s Pizza); five-step framework included in that judgment; and subsequent Revenue, Department of Social Protection, WRC Code of Practice on Determining Employment Status published in November 2024 will be considered with respect to the provisions of Chapter II of the Platform Work Directive, which concerns employment status.