Today, the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted the Convention concerning Decent Work in the Platform Economy – the first binding international labour standard for the platform economy. For millions of platform transport workers around the world, the rules of the game have now changed.
After more than eight years of campaigning by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), our affiliates and the wider labour movement, the International Labour Organization has delivered a Convention that recognises what platform workers have known for years: platforms do not simply connect work – they shape, organise and govern it.
The vote at the 114th ILC completes the process begun at the 2025 Conference, when constituents made the historic decision to pursue a binding global labour standard.
"This is a victory won by platform workers themselves – the delivery riders, ride-hail drivers and app-based transport workers who organised, testified and refused to accept that an app could strip them of their rights," said Stephen Cotton, ITF General Secretary. "Labour standards have adapted to every major transformation of work over the last century. Today, the world has ensured they adapt again." (....)