Simultaneous interpretation requested from French, English, German, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Greek, Estonian and Polish into French and English
08:30 a.m. | Registration
09:00 a.m. | Welcome and opening session
- Wolfgang Greif, Section on Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship, EESC
09:15 a.m. | Key note speaker
- Claire Courteille-Mulder, ILO, Brussels office
09:30 a.m. | Panel 1 and Debate - New forms of employment relationships: benefits v threats for workers, consumers and businesses
Moderator: Irini Pari (EESC)
Panellists:
- Steve Garelick, Former Uber driver
- Amaya Apesteguía, Consumers and Users Organisation (OCU), Spain
- Marco Torregrossa, European Forum of Independent Professionals (EFIP)
- Marianna Georgallis, European Youth Forum
- Maxime Cerruti, BusinessEurope
- Esther Lynch, ETUC
11.00 a.m. | Panel 2 and Debate - Mind the regulatory and legislative gaps
Moderator: Kathleen Walker Shaw (EESC)
Panellists:
- Siôn Simon, MEP (by video)
- Tony Royle, The York Management School, University of York
- Nicholas Costello, European Commission
- Gerrit Van de Mosselaer, Belgian social security department
12:30 p.m. | Concluding remarks
- Kathleen Walker Shaw, rapporteur of the EESC opinion (SOC/533)
13:00 p.m. | End of the hearing
Coffee/tea at disposal