Teleworking and Home-Based Work: From the Classic Labour Law Setting to the European Regulatory Framework for the Digital Work Environment

This study examines the legal institutes of teleworking and home-based work as manifestations of the evolution of the classical model of the employment relationship in the context of digitalization and the development of the European regulatory framework of the digital working environment. The study defends the thesis that these forms of labour organization do not represent only an alternative way of performing the labour function, but a normative expression of a deeper transformation of classical labour law institutions, which acquire a new functional content without changing their fundamental principles. The methodology for conducting the study combines normative, comparative law, systemic, functional and doctrinal analysis of the national and European legal framework. The scientific contribution of the development is expressed in the construction of a two-layer model for the analysis of the development of remote work and home-based work, based on historical, normative and functional periodization, as well as in the substantiation of the concept of the digital working environment as a modern space of labour regulation.