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The future of work is already here. Workers around the world are increasingly hired, compensated, disciplined, and fired by algorithms that can be opaque, error-prone, and discriminatory. The growth of digital labor platforms, fueled by the promise of flexibility and autonomy, has undermined decades of labor law regulation and enforcement, denying workers hard-won rights to an adequate standard of living and safe and healthy working conditions. Human Rights Watch will host a virtual launch event for its forthcoming report, The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage, and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the United States, which documents how platform work is systemically undercutting labor rights and protections for a growing share of the US workforce. The report documents how seven digital labor platforms—Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber—misclassify workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights while exercising tight algorithmic control driven by opaque and unpredictable decisions. This event comes at a critical juncture – just two weeks before the 2025 International Labour Conference (ILC), as governments, employers, and workers prepare to negotiate a potential new international labor standard on platform work. It will feature platform workers, labor organizers, and global experts. SPEAKERS: - José Enrique Oñate Vera, UNT/ASPA Mexico - Lena Simet, Human Rights Watch - Amos Toh, Brennan Center for Justice - Nicole Moore, Rideshare Drivers United - Monica Tepfer, International Trade Union Confederation - Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights - Lance Compa, Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations