For some time now, the European Commission has stressed the need to address the ongoing misclassification of employment status in platform work and has thus considered introducing a rebuttable presumption of employment status or a reversal of the burden of proof. This contribution focuses on the benefits and limitations of introducing a rebuttable legal presumption in EU labour law as an evidentiary means to improve the working conditions of platform workers. In doing so, some general remarks on rebuttable legal presumptions will be made, while also offering some comparative legal insights, before exploring their potential benefits and limitations in the context of EU labour law in general and platform work in particular. This contribution will finish with an analysis of how such a presumption could be integrated in the current EU social acquis.

一段时间以来，欧盟委员会一直强调需要解决平台工作中就业状况的持续错误分类问题，因此考虑引入可反驳的就业状况推定或举证责任的倒置。该贡献侧重于在欧盟劳动法中引入可反驳的法律推定作为改善平台工人工作条件的证据手段的好处和局限性。在此过程中，将对可反驳的法律推定做出一些一般性评论，同时提供一些比较的法律见解，然后在一般的欧盟劳动法和特别是平台工作的背景下探讨它们的潜在好处和局限性。本文最后将分析如何将这种假设纳入当前的欧盟社会制度。