Companies save on employee costs and also reduce employment conditions in order to survive or also to increase the profit line (in the capitalism we live in, the profit line sanctifies a lot of decisions and this harms other super important things that we will expand on here *the diseases of the neoliberal capitalism we live in)
Deterioration of conditions does not happen overnight, and usually not for those workers either. In the rotation between the employee and the one after him on the recommendation of the lawyers or the economists, the company calculates that the company reduces the working conditions (in accordance with the terms of employment that are used in that company) and thus also reduces the terms of employment to the minimum possible to the point of breaking away from the obligation by defining freelance workers who provide services for the company. the problem is gaining momentum and becoming an epidemic mainly due to the use of work platforms (gig economy - the haggling economy) in applications such as Wolt, Uber, Upwork, Fiverr, etc. The workers are not recognized as workers and therefore have no rights. Here we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being a freelancer for such an application * Advantages and disadvantages of employees the apps,We'll just note that the bottom line, from a broad perspective, this situation is dangerous for those workers (in the case of an inability to work - they have no conditions and this may create a slippery slope to the minuses, and on the social level (and even though they are required by law to set aside for retirement, they do not set aside even if they do a very small amount so that in the future they will not have a sufficient pension if they cannot work in the future. (It is not that far away and they may fall into poverty in old age, and there is a thought that the state will not be able to provide an answer for this major group) More on the subject *retired
"Exploring the Definition of 'Employee': Working Vision's Expert Perspective"
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