Author(s)

Peng Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Rennes School of Business, Rennes, Ille Et Vilaine, 35065, France

Corresponding Author

Peng Chen

ABSTRACT

The platform economy has developed in a high speed in recent years in China, but during this dramatic increase of these companies, the occupational injury of platform workers has being a serious problem. The typical example is that the insufficient protection of the rights of the takeaway riders. Research shows that takeaway riders have a great risk of occupational injury and are in urgent need of institutional protection, but due to the Chinese work-related injury insurance system is "tied" to traditional labor relations, as well as the unclear employment relationship between platform enterprises and platform workers, they cannot obtain benefits from the work-related injury insurance system. For the better development of the platform economy and realize the benefits of both labor and capital, various explorations have been made in recent years to protect platform workers. According to the pilot experiences, Jiujiang of Jiangxi Province, Wujiang of Suzhou are independent of work injury insurance system, and gradually developing into a model combining the both.

KEYWORDS

Occupational Injury Insurance; Work-related Injury Insurance; Platform Worker

CITE THIS PAPER

Peng Chen, Occupational Injury Protection Model Analysis for Platform Workers. Social Security and Administration Management (2023) Vol. 4: 31-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socsam.2023.040506.

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