A new category within European Union Law: Personal work

This article deals with personal work, a concept of doctrinal origin that is emerging as an alternative to the traditional bipartition between subordinate and self-employed work. EU law has used the concept of personal work in three different contexts and with different shades of meaning: in the field of anti-discrimination law, in the field of collective bargaining, and in that of platform work. A composite picture emerges, but converges towards the universalisation of protecti n in favour of the person who works, regardless of the classification of the relationship (anti-discrimination law, platform work), or the solo self-employed worker (collective bargaining).