Digitalisation - Sharing Economy
I. Articles in journals
| 2025 | The UberEats app and the UberTaxi app as "deployment company" within the meaning of the staff leasing legislation, in Jusletter of June 2, 2025. |
| Uber is not letting up - the Zurich Compensation Office must review the status of Uber cab drivers Discussion of BGer 85/2024 of May 29, 2024 and BGer 9F-15/204, in: SZS 01/2025. | |
| 2024 | New directive on working conditions for platform work in the EU - background, overview, analysis and significance for Switzerland, in: Jusletter of June 24, 2024. |
The Uber-story goes on: New judgments on Uber Eats, discussion of BVGer A-4350/2022 of January 3, 2024 and Cour de Justice of the Canton of Geneva, Chambre administrative, judgment of December 5, 2023, ATA 1306/2023, in: SZS 3/2024, pp. 159-163. | |
| 2023 | The Federal Supreme Court confirms: Employer status for Uber B.V. regarding Uber cab drivers - to be continued..., subject headings of BGer 9C_70/2022 of February 16, 2023, in: SZS 4/2023, pp. 183-193. |
| 2022 | Clarifying Federal Court rulings on the Uber case - still (many) pending questions, in: SZS-OnlineFirst of July 11 (also appears in print in SZS 4/2022). |
About Uber rulings and ever new Uber stories..., in: SZS-OnlineFirst of February 15. | |
| 2021 | Impacts of Digitalization on Employment Relationships and the Need for more Democracy at Work, in: Industrial Law Journal, dwaa029, pp.1-25. |
Discussion of Cantonal Court of Vaud, Arrêt CACI VD 23.04.2020 and Administrative Court of Geneva, Arrêt du 29. May 2020, ATA/553/2020, UberPop drivers and | |
| 2020 | Labor and social security law aspects of the platform economy: status quo, analysis and outlook, in: Basler juristische Mitteilungen, No. 3/2020, pp. 141-178. |
| 2019 | |
| L'ubérisation du travail en Suisse, in: Revue du droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 2019/2, pp. 68-75. | |
Digitalization - Challenges for legal training, in HAVE 1/2019, p. 100. | |
| 2018 | Uber rulings of the Social Security Court, in: Jusletter of September 3, 2018, p. 1-8. |
| Self-employed cab drivers connected to an intermediary center, comments on the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court 8C_571/2017 of 9 November 2017, in: Jusletter of 12 February 2018, pp. 1-10. | |
| 2017 | Is there a right to work?, in: Basler juristische Mitteilungen 3/2017, pp. 117-139. |
Social security law in the age of robotics, in: AJP 2/2017, pp. 225-231. | |
| The income of Uber drivers in the light of social security law, Jusletter of June 12, 2017, p. 1-14. | |
| 2016 | New forms of work organization: Internet platforms as employers, in: ARV 4/2016. p. 243-254. |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Right to be forgotten in search engines, in: digma 4 (2014) 162 ff. |
Der Wandel der Arbeitswelt in der Schweiz, in: Institute for Innovation and Technology IIT 20 (2014), online: http://www.iit-berlin.de/de/publikationen/der-wandel-der-arbeitswelt-in-der-schweiz/ (together with: Apt Wenke/Peter Martin/von Stokar Thomas/Bovenschulte Marc). | |
| 2013 | |
| 2010 | Video surveillance at the workplace permissible (comments on the judgment of the Criminal Division of the Federal Supreme Court of November 12, 2009 (6B_536/2009)), in: digma 2 (2010) 76 ff. |
II Contributions to edited volumes
| 2021 | Application of the regulations on staff leasing to "Uber Eats", in: Geiser Thomas/Hilb Martin/Pärli Kurt/Stengel Manuel/Wittmer Andreas (eds.), Ein Kunstflug durch das Recht und die Governance, Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Roland Müller, Zurich 2021, pp. 17-33. |
Les effets de la digitalization sur le partenariat social, in : Dagron Stéphanie/Dupont Anne-Sylvie/Lempen Karine, L'oit et le droit social en suisse: 100 ans et après?, Geneva 2019, pp. 191-221. | |
| 2018 | Right to offline, in: Social Almanac 2019: "Digitalization - and where is the human being?" The Caritas yearbook on the social situation in Switzerland Trends, analyses, figures, Lucerne 2018, p. 177-186. |
| 2017 | Digital platforms - labor and social security law challenges, in: Denknetz / Réseau de Réflexion (ed.), Denknetz Jahrbuch 2017, 2017, pp. 118-128. |
III Books as author
| 2019 | Labor and social security law issues of the sharing economy, Basel, 2019. |
| 2018 | Sharing Economy - teilen statt besitzen, Zurich, 2018, (together with Thomas von Stokar, Martin Peter, Remo Zandonella, Vanessa Angst, Gabi Hildesheimer, Johannes Scherrer and Wilhelm Schmid). |
| 2012 | Lokalisiert und identifiziert, Wie Ortungstechnologien unser Leben verändern, TA-Swiss 57/2012, Zurich 2012 (together with: Hilty Lorenz/Oertel Britta/Wölk Michaela). |
IV. Editor of the publication series Law in private and public companies (together with Roland Müller and Thomas Geiser)
| 2018 | Betty-Annett Meier, Assessment of the employer on the Internet, Zurich/St. Gallen 2018. |
| 8. April 2026 | Platform economy, between bogus (in)self-employment, based on the model of Uber and platform economy in general: opportunities/risks and pending questions, Association of Swiss Labor Market Authorities, Expert Pool Labor Market Supervision, Exchange Conference 2026-I |
| 13. December 2024 | Labor and social security status of platform work in Switzerland - status quo and legal policy developments, Work and Social Justice: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age, Laboris, Netzwerk Arbeitsforschung Schweiz, Zurich |
| 1. November 2024 | Directive européenne sur l'amélioration des conditions de travail des personnes travaillant via une plateforme numérique, Le travail de plateforme en Suisse : un état des lieux, Université de Neuchâtel, Faculté de droit, Neuchâtel |
| 11. April 2024 | Platform Work Directive, New Employment Relations: Untying The Knot(s), Lisbon |
| 4. April 2024 | The project for a regulation on platform work in the European Union: An innovative approach - but would it work (and how)?, ILERA 10th Africa Congress, Mosi-oa-Tunya |
| 25. September 2023 | Working conditions in the digital world: What new rights and obligations does the EU package of measures on platform work provide for?, Internetwirtschaft: Regulierungsflut aus Brüssel - Wo steht die Schweiz?, Seminar of the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Zurich, Zurich |
| 10. November 2021 | Personnel selection and monitoring by algorithms - to the (dis)benefit of employees?, SLTA Student Chapter Basel, Basel |
| 2. November 2023 | Digitalization, demographic change, crises: Challenges to social law - current and future developments in employment and social security law, Who's right?, supported employment schweiz, 14th symposium, Windisch |
| 6. May 2021 | Les effets de la digitalisation sur le partenariat social, Work in the Digital Era - Legal Challenges, XIII European Regional Congress of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law, online, Lisbon. |
| 16. March 2021 | Autonomy and the need for more democracy in the word of work, 18th International Conference in Commemoration of Prof Marco Biagi - Beyond Employment: Protecting Autonomous Work, Online Conference, Modena. |
| 16. March 2021 | Modern forms of work and social security protection - New questions and old problems, Schulthess Forum Sozialversicherung in Unternehmen, Zurich. |
| 27. November 2020 | Home office - a labor law challenge, Workshop Digital Transformation and Industrial Relations in Switzerland, Seminar for Sociology, Basel. |
| 26. October 2020 | Work from home - legal aspects, Syndicom office hour, Zurich. |
| 27. January 2020 | Labor and social security law issues of employment via internet platforms, lecture series Basler Juristenverein, Basel. |
| 9. January 2020 | Digitalization and robotization of the world of work - legal challenges, Uni-Infotag 2020, Basel. |
| 13. December 2019 | How can social dialogue contribute to the enhancement of gig workers' rights? SNIS Project Final Conference - Gig economy and its Implications for Social Dialogue and Workers' Protection. Main outcomes from a cross-national comparative research project in Switzerland, Germany, Greece and United Kingdom, with Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Luca Perrig, Geneva. |
| 6. June 2019 | Apps and chips: For the (dis)benefit of employees, Law & Robots Conference 2019, Basel. |
| may 10, 2019 | Les effets de la digitalisation sur le partenariat social, Colloque - L'oit et le droit social en suisse : 100 ans et après?, ILO_OIT_Geneva. |
| 8. May 2019 | Digital delocalizations and collective labor rights, Interdisciplinary research seminars on WORK, first semester 2019, to mark the 100th anniversary of the ILO (1919 - 2019), organized by the Contact Group FNRS - work and social emancipation - Working paper for the theme "the present role of spatial dimension in the (re)composition of work relationships", with Anne Meier, Leuven. |
| 30. April 2019 | Democratization of the world of work through digitalisation - What does this mean for participation and social partnership?, Labour Law, Brussels. |
| 05. September 2018 | Digitalization and the need for data and privacy protection as an issue of well- being at work, ISLSSL-Conference Torino, Turin (ITA) |
| 05. December 2017 | Digital revolution and socio-political challenges, Lucerne Social Policy Congress 2017, Lucerne |
| 20. November 2017 | Digital platforms - labor and social security law challenges Challenges, lecture as part of the event Digital precarization, labour law and the digital gender gap,Basel |
| 25. October 2017 | Digital world of work - challenges for the welfare state, consequences for social insurance, SSPA Annual Conference, Bern |
| 25. September 2017 | Brave new world of work - internet platforms as employers, Uni from below - Internetcafé Planet13, Basel |
| 28. October 2016 | The impact of "robotization" on social insurance law, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen |
| 19./May 20, 2016 | Protection of worker's privacy in the age of digitalization: A human rights issue, Conference "New Foundation of Labour Law in the Globalized Market Economy", Stockholm |
| 25. June 2014 | Protection of privacy in the workplace in digital times - a human rights challenge, 3rd Winterthur Conference on Labor Law, Ethic Codes, Data Protection, Compliance and Whistleblowing- Labor Law Challenges, Winterthur |
| Project | Research leader | Status |
Le futur du dialogue social et du tripartisme dans le contexte de la digitalisation de l'économie | Meier, Anne; Pärli, Kurt; Seiler, Zoé | Completed |
TA-Swiss study: Sharing Economy - Sharing instead of owning The study is dedicated to the increasing importance of the platform economy in Switzerland and examines which national qualities are likely to remain relevant in this environment and to what extent these can be preserved with regulatory measures, if necessary, in order to remain competitive in the future. At the same time, the necessity of effective measures in the sense of the social constitution is emphasized in order to offer consumers and companies sufficient protection. | Pärli, Kurt; von Stokar, Thomas; et. al. | Completed |
| 15. September | Interview in the program Kassensturz on the ruling of the cantonal court VD on Uber and platform economy |
03. December 2019 | Interview in the Kassensturz program on Uber Eats and the platform economy |
17. April 2018 | Radio SRF 4 News daily talk on the subject of "Sharing Economy" |
02. March 2017 | NZZ guest commentary on digitalization and the social question |
Master's theses - ongoing and completed projects
| Bläsi Géraldine | The social security status of self-employed persons |
| Borer Jan | "Bring your own device" - Issues in the employment relationship under private law |
| Gügler Maya | Algorithms as gatekeepers: Employer liability for personality violations caused by AI decisions in the application process |
| Ramadani Hava | Legal assessment of health apps in the new world of work |
| Schock Marco | Solo self-employed persons in collective employment contracts - a collective legal necessity or an oxymoron under antitrust law |
| Stefania Dolores | The impact of digitalization on collective employment law |
| Weller Elena | Opportunities and challenges of AI in the employment relationship |
Dissertations - ongoing and completed projects
| Balmer Michael | The subcontractor as a vehicle for escaping from labor and social security law - claims of employees and social insurance companies against the platformized company |