Taking parental protection rights as a clear-cut field of study, this article argues that there are significant protection gaps in the social rights and employment protection of the economically dependent self-employed. Their exclusion from employment protection can be justified as far as the protective purpose is tied to the personal subordination of the employee relationship. However, certain vulnerabilities arise not from personal, but from economic dependency, whereas the changing labour market and the growing area of precarious self-employment must be considered. Comparing the rights of working parents in Slovenia and Austria, we distinguish between employees and economically dependent self-employed persons in this specific area and point to challenges for the wider field of labour and social rights. The purposes of parental protection rights are diverse; they include health protection, guarantee social security and serve equal treatment purposes. Therefore, they represent an ideal field to discuss arguments regarding the inclusion or exclusion of the economically dependent self-employed into different protective frameworks.

本文将父母保护权作为一个明确的研究领域，认为经济依赖个体经营者的社会权利和就业保护存在显着的保护差距。只要保护目的与雇员关系的个人从属关系相关，他们就可以被排除在就业保护之外是合理的。然而，某些脆弱性不是来自个人，而是来自经济依赖，而必须考虑不断变化的劳动力市场和不断增长的不稳定自营职业领域。比较斯洛文尼亚和奥地利在职父母的权利，我们区分了这一特定领域的雇员和经济依赖的个体经营者，并指出了更广泛的劳动和社会权利领域面临的挑战。父母保护权的目的多种多样；它们包括健康保护、保障社会保障和服务于平等待遇的目的。因此，它们代表了一个理想的领域，可以讨论有关将经济依赖的个体经营者纳入或排除在不同保护框架中的论点。