The 21st century is witnessing changes in the labor market, which have reduced traditional Labor Law’s ability to fulfill its objectives of guaranteeing dignified living conditions for all workers. Thus, there are tendencies of diversification and precarisation within the area of dependent labor, while outside their historical boundaries other forms of work demand protection that their own regulations are unable to provide. New forms of atypical and non-standard forms of employment arise, such as zero-hours contracts, voucher work, smart work and platform work. Each one of these defies long-lasting rules and regulations on the use of dependent work, which were constructed with a very different model of employment in mind. The consequence is that the 21st century requires a different regulatory model, in which block applications of differentiated regulations based on legal qualification...

En el siglo XXI se producen cambios en el mercado de trabajo, que han hecho que el Derecho del Trabajo tradicional esté perdiendo la capacidad de cumplir sus objetivos de ordenarlo adecuadamente y de garantizar condiciones de vida dignas para los trabajadores. Así, existen tendencias de diversificación y precarización dentro del espacio del trabajo asalariado, mientras que fuera de sus fronteras históricas las formas de trabajo no laborales demandan una protección que sus propias regulaciones no son capaces de proporcionarle. Surgen nuevas formas de empleo atípico y no convencional, como los contratos de cero horas, el trabajo por bonos, el “smart-work” y el trabajo en plataformas. Cada uno de éstos supone un desafío para unas regulaciones con una larga tradición, que fueron establecidas para ordenar un modelo de relación de trabajo muy diferente. La consecuencia es que el...

The 21st century is witnessing changes in the labor market, which have reduced traditional Labor Law’s ability to fulfill its objectives of guaranteeing dignified living conditions for all workers. Thus, there are tendencies of diversification and precarisation within the area of dependent labor, while outside their historical boundaries other forms of work demand protection that their own regulations are unable to provide. New forms of atypical and non-standard forms of employment arise, such as zero-hours contracts, voucher work, smart work and platform work. Each one of these defies long-lasting rules and regulations on the use of dependent work, which were constructed with a very different model of employment in mind. The consequence is that the 21st century requires a different regulatory model, in which block applications of differentiated regulations based on legal qualification...