Anticompetitive agreements, Competition enforcement, Competition policy, European Commission, Ex ante regulatory assessment, Guidelines, Labour market
Rethinking Collective Bargaining for the Self-Employed: European Commission publishes Guidelines on Exemption and Non-Enforcement
On September 29th 2022, the Commission published Guidelines on the application of Union competition law to collective agreements regarding the working conditions of solo self-employed persons (hereinafter: the Guidelines). The first draft of this document was released almost a year ago as part of a package including a proposed Directive on platform work. The Guidelines,…