PANDEMIC AND SELF EMPLOYED: SOLUTIONS ARTICULATED IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT TO PREVENT THIS POSSIBLE NEW FORM OF LABORIOUS POVERTY

Abstract

The study that is presented below tries to fulfill a double objective. On the one hand, present the possible extension that the concept of laborious poverty would have suffered in view of the health crisis with respect to the provision of social policies aimed at self-employed workers - a group that, in normal situations, does not reach the expected protection standards by the ILO in its Decent Work agenda. And, on the other hand, the presentation of the measures adopted by the member countries of the European Union which, without clear guidance from the supra-state level, end up converging. These commonplaces show that, in effect, the self-employed person reveals himself, after the health crisis caused by COVID, as a group on the brink of social exclusion due to the lack of foresight on the part of the Member States, of structural measures of social protection.