§ 15 — Judicial management of platform operator

15.—(1) This section applies where a platform operator that is a company enters judicial management under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.(2) Where platform workers of the platform operator —(a)

are creditors, by reason that earnings are payable to them under platform work agreements or any award or agreement regulating conditions under which the platform workers provide a platform service for the platform operator or otherwise; and

(b)

are members of a platform work association that is recognised by the platform operator under the Industrial Relations Act 1960,

it is sufficient compliance by the judicial manager with sections 105, 107 and 108 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 if the notice, statement of proposals and revised proposals mentioned in those sections are sent to the platform work association representing the platform workers.

(3) A platform work association to which subsection (2) applies —(a)

is entitled to represent any such platform workers at a meeting of creditors summoned under section 107(1) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 or, with the permission of the General Division of the High Court, to apply to the General Division of the High Court under section 115 of that Act on their behalf; and

(b)

may make representations to the judicial manager on behalf of those platform workers,

in respect of any matter connected with or arising from the continuation or termination of their platform work agreements, or any matter relating to any award made by the Industrial Arbitration Court under the Industrial Relations Act 1960 or any collective agreement certified under that Act that affects those platform workers.

—(1) This section applies where a platform operator that is a company enters judicial management under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.

(2) Where platform workers of the platform operator —(a)

are creditors, by reason that earnings are payable to them under platform work agreements or any award or agreement regulating conditions under which the platform workers provide a platform service for the platform operator or otherwise; and

(b)

are members of a platform work association that is recognised by the platform operator under the Industrial Relations Act 1960,

it is sufficient compliance by the judicial manager with sections 105, 107 and 108 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 if the notice, statement of proposals and revised proposals mentioned in those sections are sent to the platform work association representing the platform workers.

(3) A platform work association to which subsection (2) applies —(a)

is entitled to represent any such platform workers at a meeting of creditors summoned under section 107(1) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 or, with the permission of the General Division of the High Court, to apply to the General Division of the High Court under section 115 of that Act on their behalf; and

(b)

may make representations to the judicial manager on behalf of those platform workers,

in respect of any matter connected with or arising from the continuation or termination of their platform work agreements, or any matter relating to any award made by the Industrial Arbitration Court under the Industrial Relations Act 1960 or any collective agreement certified under that Act that affects those platform workers.