The member states of the International Labor Organization (ILO) approved, this Friday (12), an unprecedented agreement to promote decent work on digital platforms. The new International Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy is an attempt by the ILO to establish a first set of global minimum rules to protect service providers hired through digital applications that connect clients with independent professionals. Related news: Government expands credit for app motorcyclists. Understand how Move Applications works for drivers and taxi drivers. Lula creates R$30 billion program for app drivers. The approved text defines the concept of digital work platforms, as well as that of workers on these applications. It establishes guidelines to guarantee workers' rights, applicable to all companies operating in countries that ratify adherence to the convention, in addition to admitting that, although it generates employment and income opportunities, the type of work also produces socioeconomic challenges that need to be faced at a global level. The signatories of the agreement must respect and promote, among the segment, freedoms of association and trade unions and the right to collective bargaining and safe and healthy working conditions, seeking to prevent workplace accidents and occupational diseases. They must also enable every professional to receive at least the equivalent of a local minimum wage, without taking into account any tips or commissions. The member states that ratify the agreement also undertake to adopt the necessary actions to eliminate, from the Platform Economy, forms of child, degrading and slavery-like labor and all forms of occupational discrimination. And to promote mechanisms for contesting decisions and establishing the obligation for workers to be compensated in some way for any expenses related to the provision of the service offered. "This is a historic moment", informed the ILO, referring to the text approved this morning, shortly before the end of the International Labor Conference, in Geneva, Switzerland. “This first international labor standard on the platform economy represents an important step in addressing a rapidly evolving segment of the world of work,” the organization added. The approved text highlights that, given the specificities of the provision of services mediated by digital platforms, “it is desirable to adopt specific standards that, together with other international standards, contribute to making decent work a reality” in the segment.