12.05.2023
11:30–13:00
Digital Platforms: Identifying Where the Civil Code Ends and the Labour Code Begins
Congress Centre, conference hall D2
The current legal framework governing labour relations was inherited from a previous technological era. It is unsurprising then that the onset of the platform economy has shaken its very foundations. This new structure links new communication practices, new algorithm-based labour management technologies, and a new role and place for labour in modern life. This is a global challenge, and each country, each national economy, and each legal system is attempting to find its own way to respond to this challenge. These responses are likely to differ in line with specific national characteristics. Russia is no exception in this regard. More than 10 million people in the country are already part of the platform economy in one way or another. Of this figure, a quarter work in the production of goods and services. The freedom to choose what to produce and for whom, and what service to provide to whom at what price all form the basis of aggregator platforms. It is their driving force. And it falls within the scope of Russia’s Civil Code. However, this generally healthy process is sometimes infiltrated with criminal practices, whereby people are coerced to abandon their labour rights in favour of pseudo civil law contracts. What can be done to separate freedom of choice in self-employment from a fictitious form of freedom sometimes forced upon employees? Is the presumption of employer-employee relations a protective or harmful mechanism on the part of the state, and a hinderance in civil law relations? Is it acceptable that the tax authorities of some Russian regions now practice the compulsory re-classification of civil law relations to labour relations, without at least one of the parties having the right to appeal? What are such conflicts rooted in: law enforcement in a disputed area, or imperfect legislation? Who will protect the civil rights of self employed people in the same way the Labour Inspectorate is tasked with protecting the labour rights of employees?
Moderator
Sergey Zverev
Head of the School of Communications, National Research University Higher School of Economics; President, CROS
Panellists
Andrey Isaev
First Deputy Head of the United Russia Faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation; Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs
Alexey Minaev
Deputy Managing Director, Ozon
Ekaterina Papchenkova
Vice President, Director of the Center for Regulatory Policy, Center for Strategic Research
Anton Petrakov
Director for Government Relations, Yandex.Taxi
Oksana Sinyavskaya
Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
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Sergey Zverev
Head of the School of Communications, National Research University Higher School of Economics; President, CROS

Andrey Isaev
First Deputy Head of the United Russia Faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation; Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs

Alexey Minaev
Deputy Managing Director, Ozon

Ekaterina Papchenkova
Vice President, Director of the Center for Regulatory Policy, Center for Strategic Research
Master's degree, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Russian School of Private Law.
2013 – 2014 – The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
2014 – 2015 – Analytical center FORUM.
2015 – 2017 – Department of the Distressed assets, Sberbank.
2017 – to date – General Director, International and Comparative Law Research Center.
2013 – 2014 – The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
2014 – 2015 – Analytical center FORUM.
2015 – 2017 – Department of the Distressed assets, Sberbank.
2017 – to date – General Director, International and Comparative Law Research Center.

Anton Petrakov
Director for Government Relations, Yandex.Taxi
Born in Kaluga in 1989. Graduated from MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute
of International Relations).
Until 2014, worked as a diplomat, including as part of
Russia's diplomatic mission in the Czech Republic.
From 2014 to 2018, worked as the manager of
government relations projects at Yandex. During that time, he supervised
the company's interaction with Russian regions and oversaw a number of
social-oriented legislative and GR initiatives to promote IT on a federal level.
He was an architect of Russia's draft telemedicine law.
Took an active part in the development and scaling of Yandex Lyceum.
Since 2018, he has been in charge of corporate and government relations at Yandex Taxi.
Member of the State Council working group on transport.
Part of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection working group engaged in regulating the activities
of the self-employed.
Co-head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) working group dealing with taxi services.
Head of the Digital Platforms working group of Skolkovo's Competence Center for
Digital Economy Regulation.
Member of the Presidium of the Board of All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises OPORA RUSSIA.
of International Relations).
Until 2014, worked as a diplomat, including as part of
Russia's diplomatic mission in the Czech Republic.
From 2014 to 2018, worked as the manager of
government relations projects at Yandex. During that time, he supervised
the company's interaction with Russian regions and oversaw a number of
social-oriented legislative and GR initiatives to promote IT on a federal level.
He was an architect of Russia's draft telemedicine law.
Took an active part in the development and scaling of Yandex Lyceum.
Since 2018, he has been in charge of corporate and government relations at Yandex Taxi.
Member of the State Council working group on transport.
Part of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection working group engaged in regulating the activities
of the self-employed.
Co-head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) working group dealing with taxi services.
Head of the Digital Platforms working group of Skolkovo's Competence Center for
Digital Economy Regulation.
Member of the Presidium of the Board of All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises OPORA RUSSIA.

Oksana Sinyavskaya
Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Born on October 11, 1974 in Leningrad.
1996 - graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of the Russian State Pedagogical University
2000 - received MA in Sociology by Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, validated by the University of Manchester
2002 - defended her PhD thesis in economics
2000-2015 - Deputy Director of the Independent Institute for Social Policy
2009 - present - Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2014-2016 - Leading Research Fellow, Center for Analysis of Income and Living Standards, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2016-2018 - Expert of the Center for Strategic Research in the direction of "Human Capital"
2016 - present - Head of the Center for Comprehensive Studies of Social Policy, Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
For many years, she participates in different working / expert groups organized by the Russian government on the issues of pension reform, active ageing, social services and the development of a long-term care system.
Member of the "New Social Contract" working group on the development of a draft frontal strategy for the social and economic development of the Russian Federation; member of the Expert Advisory Council (ECC) under the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, etc.
Has a gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.
1996 - graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of the Russian State Pedagogical University
2000 - received MA in Sociology by Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, validated by the University of Manchester
2002 - defended her PhD thesis in economics
2000-2015 - Deputy Director of the Independent Institute for Social Policy
2009 - present - Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2014-2016 - Leading Research Fellow, Center for Analysis of Income and Living Standards, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2016-2018 - Expert of the Center for Strategic Research in the direction of "Human Capital"
2016 - present - Head of the Center for Comprehensive Studies of Social Policy, Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
For many years, she participates in different working / expert groups organized by the Russian government on the issues of pension reform, active ageing, social services and the development of a long-term care system.
Member of the "New Social Contract" working group on the development of a draft frontal strategy for the social and economic development of the Russian Federation; member of the Expert Advisory Council (ECC) under the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, etc.
Has a gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.