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The World Just Changed the Rules for Gig Workers

[EN/TH] The ILO just adopted Convention No. 193 — the world's first binding global labor standard for gig workers. The vote: 406 to 8.

This is a landmark moment. But the gap between adoption and real impact is where the story gets complicated.

A few things worth understanding:

🔹 The scale is staggering. Over 150 million platform workers globally — delivery riders, drivers, app-based workers — have long operated without employment contracts, sick leave, or social protection. This convention establishes a baseline of rights for that workforce.

🔹 The near-unanimous vote is meaningful, but also tells you something. Employer groups supported the text precisely because it leaves the hardest question — what counts as an "employment relationship" — to individual countries. That's pragmatic. It's also where implementation will get messy.

🔹 The enforcement reality is indirect. The ILO can't police Uber or Grab directly. What it does is raise the legal and political cost of the status quo. Once countries ratify, workers gain concrete legal ground to challenge misclassification in domestic courts.

🔹 The algorithmic management gap. The convention is still weak on automated systems — the very tools platforms use to direct and control workers while maintaining contractor classification on paper. This is the next frontier of the debate.

The EU's Platform Work Directive is the harder-edged model of what actual domestic law looks like. Brazil, the UK, and Southeast Asia will be the first real testing grounds for how this convention gets translated into hard local rules.

Adoption is the beginning, not the end. The workers most exposed — disproportionately in the Global South — are also in countries where ratification timelines and labor court access are weakest. That tension is the real challenge ahead.

History is being made. Whether it changes lives depends on what governments do next.

📱🌍 จุดเปลี่ยนครั้งประวัติศาสตร์ของเศรษฐกิจแพลตฟอร์มโลก

องค์การแรงงานระหว่างประเทศ (ILO) เพิ่งมีมติเห็นชอบ “อนุสัญญาว่าด้วยงานที่มีคุณค่าในระบบเศรษฐกิจแพลตฟอร์ม” (Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention) ด้วยคะแนนเสียงท่วมท้น 406 ต่อ 8

นี่อาจเป็นหนึ่งในการเปลี่ยนแปลงสำคัญที่สุดของโลกการทำงานในยุคดิจิทัล

ตลอดหลายปีที่ผ่านมา แพลตฟอร์มเรียกรถ ส่งอาหาร และงานกิ๊กต่าง ๆ เติบโตอย่างรวดเร็ว โดยใช้โมเดลที่จัดให้คนทำงานเป็น “พาร์ทเนอร์” หรือ “ผู้รับจ้างอิสระ” มากกว่าการเป็นลูกจ้าง

โมเดลนี้ช่วยให้ธุรกิจขยายตัวได้เร็ว แต่ก็ทำให้แรงงานจำนวนมากต้องเผชิญความเสี่ยงโดยไม่มีตาข่ายรองรับทางสังคมที่เพียงพอ

🔴 ปัจจุบันมีแรงงานใน Gig Economy ทั่วโลกมากถึง 435 ล้านคน ตามการประเมินของ World Bank

🔴 อนุสัญญาฉบับใหม่นี้มุ่งยกระดับการคุ้มครองแรงงานในประเด็นสำคัญ เช่น

• ค่าแรงที่เป็นธรรม

• สิทธิด้านสุขภาพ

• การลาป่วย

• ประกันสังคม

• ความปลอดภัยในการทำงาน

🔴 แม้ ILO จะไม่มีอำนาจบังคับใช้กฎหมายโดยตรง แต่ “มาตรฐานสากล” นี้จะกลายเป็นแรงผลักดันสำคัญให้ประเทศสมาชิกกลับไปทบทวนและปรับปรุงกฎหมายแรงงานของตนเอง

หากหลายประเทศเริ่มให้สัตยาบัน เราอาจกำลังเห็นการเปลี่ยนแปลงครั้งใหญ่ของโมเดลธุรกิจแพลตฟอร์มทั่วโลก

สิ่งที่น่าจับตาคือ บริษัทแพลตฟอร์มจะปรับตัวอย่างไร?

ต้นทุนที่เพิ่มขึ้นอาจส่งผลต่อ

• รายได้ของแพลตฟอร์ม

• รายได้ของแรงงาน

• ราคาที่ผู้บริโภคต้องจ่าย

• และความสามารถในการแข่งขันของธุรกิจ

ผมมองว่า นี่ไม่ใช่แค่ประเด็นเรื่องแรงงาน แต่เป็นคำถามสำคัญของ “เศรษฐกิจดิจิทัลยุคใหม่”

เราจะออกแบบระบบอย่างไรให้เกิดสมดุลระหว่าง

✅ การคุ้มครองแรงงาน

✅ การส่งเสริมนวัตกรรม

✅ และการรักษาความสามารถในการแข่งขันของธุรกิจ

โดยไม่ทำให้ฝ่ายใดฝ่ายหนึ่งเสียเปรียบจนเกินไป?

ท่านคิดว่าในอนาคต คนขับรถ ไรเดอร์ และแรงงานบนแพลตฟอร์ม ควรถูกมองเป็น “ผู้ประกอบการอิสระ” หรือ “ลูกจ้างยุคดิจิทัล” มากกว่ากัน?

#ILOLabourRights #FutureOfWorkFutureOfBusiness #GigEconomyPlatformEconomyDigitalEconomy

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... Read moreเมื่อพูดถึงแรงงานในเศรษฐกิจแพลตฟอร์ม เรามักจะเห็นภาพของคนที่ทำงานอิสระแบบไม่มีสัญญาจ้างหรือสวัสดิการใด ๆ มาก่อน แต่การที่องค์การแรงงานระหว่างประเทศ (ILO) ผ่านอนุสัญญาฉบับที่ 193 ถือเป็นการก้าวครั้งใหญ่ที่จะช่วยเปลี่ยนแปลงภาพนี้อย่างชัดเจน ส่วนตัวผมเคยเจอประสบการณ์ตรงกับการทำงานในแพลตฟอร์มส่งอาหารและเรียกรถที่ต้องรับแรงกดดันสูงในแต่ละวัน แต่กลับไม่มีสิทธิในการลาป่วยหรือรับประกันสังคม เมื่ออนุสัญญานี้เริ่มถูกนำมาใช้ ก็น่าจะช่วยให้แรงงานกลุ่มนี้ได้รับความคุ้มครองทางกฎหมายมากขึ้น ทำให้รู้สึกมั่นคงและปลอดภัยในชีวิตการทำงานมากกว่าเดิม อย่างไรก็ตาม การบังคับใช้ที่ยังต้องปล่อยให้แต่ละประเทศกำหนดความหมายของความเป็น "ลูกจ้าง" ก็ทำให้เกิดความไม่แน่นอนและความท้าทายในการปฏิบัติที่ต้องติดตามอย่างใกล้ชิด เช่นเดียวกับการใช้ระบบอัลกอริทึมควบคุมงานที่ปัจจุบันยังไม่มีมาตรการที่ชัดเจน สิ่งนี้จะเป็นด่านต่อไปที่ฝ่ายแรงงานต้องร่วมกันผลักดัน ในมุมมองของผม การพัฒนากฎหมายและมาตรฐานเหล่านี้ต้องมีความสมดุลระหว่างการคุ้มครองสิทธิแรงงานและการสนับสนุนการเติบโตของธุรกิจดิจิทัล เพราะทั้งสองฝ่ายล้วนมีส่วนสำคัญต่อการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจในยุคสมัยใหม่ นอกจากนี้ การสนับสนุนให้แรงงานได้รับความรู้และเข้าใจสิทธิ์ของตนเองก็เป็นสิ่งจำเป็นที่จะทำให้มาตรฐานนี้เกิดผลอย่างแท้จริง สุดท้ายแล้ว การเปลี่ยนแปลงที่แท้จริงจะเกิดขึ้นจากการลงมือทำของรัฐบาล ผู้ประกอบการ และตัวแรงงานเอง ที่จะช่วยกันผลักดันให้เศรษฐกิจแพลตฟอร์มเติบโตไปพร้อมกับความเป็นอยู่ที่ดีขึ้นของผู้ที่ทำงานในระบบนี้อย่างแท้จริง

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SUCH A FUN ACTIVITY TO PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING IN A FUN WAY!!! First we read the story “I will never not ever eat a tomato” after reading the story, we came together as a class to come up with super fun names for our fruits we normally eat! We then made a fruit salad together as a class and enjoyed
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