Exploring the Dilemma and Path of Occupational Injuries of New Industry Practitioners

Abstract

With the deep integration of the digital economy and traditional industries, new forms of employment relying on Internet platforms are developing rapidly, but their non-standardized employment mode makes practitioners face significant occupational safety risks. Such groups are often outside the traditional work injury insurance system due to the dispersed work scenarios and complex employment relationships, resulting in frequent occupational accidents and difficulties in obtaining relief through labor relationship determination. The root of the problem is that the algorithm-led labor scheduling mechanism weakens the employers’ direct management of workers, and the lagging design of the occupational injury protection system and the lack of supervision by the administrative departments of the platform enterprises have created multiple institutional loopholes. This paper analyzes the occupational injury dilemma and causes of new industry practitioners, and conducts a preliminary investigation on the path to solving the occupational injury dilemma of new industry practitioners from four aspects: optimizing the platform labor supervision mechanism, reconfiguring the new type of labor relationship recognition system by the rule of law, innovating the legislation of laws and regulations related to the protection of occupational risks, and constructing a digital ecosystem of rights and interests protection empowered by technology.