The home delivery company Glovo changes its labor relations model in Spain and leaves behind that of false self-employed workers. From now on Glovo will provide employment contracts to its delivery drivers.
The company has made this decision after being for years in the spotlight for its use of the figure of the self-employed, which has even led a judge in Barcelona to investigate whether it has violated the rights of its workers.
The announcement comes just one day before Óscar Pierre, founder and CEO of Glovo, appear before the judge precisely after the complaints about this model of false self-employment, for which it accumulates more than 200 million euros in inspection sanctions and unpaid contributions.
In a statement, Glovo assured this Monday that it has taken this step “within the framework of its firm commitment to Spain, its country of origin and main market.”
In parallel, The company will open a dialogue table with social agents to provide all the guarantees to the process and ensure that the change in operations is developed with consensus. This forum will be open to the rest of the sector’s operators so that they can carry out similar transition processes and join the agreements reached.
The model change will include all the cities in which Glovo is availablewhich currently exceeds 900, and will be applied to all application verticals. The company also ensures that the new model will at all times maintain the user experience and that of the restaurants and establishments that collaborate with the application throughout the country.
Yolanda Díaz celebrates
Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and minister of Labor and Social Economy, celebrated Glovo’s announcement with evident satisfaction. “Today democracy has won in our country. At last, Glovo is going to regularize more than 60,000 delivery workers in Spain,” said Díaz in statements to the media in Brussels before participating in the meeting of EU Ministers of Employment and Social Policy.
“Democracy wins, the law is imposed and I believe we make a better country,” said Díaz, before adding: “The message that Spain sends is clear: yes you can have delivery workers with rights and this does not prevent their work from being performed with digital tools.”
A complaint from the prosecutor’s office led to the judicial case
The judicial investigation against Glovo was opened based on the complaint that the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office filed last June against the person in charge of the delivery company for considering that the company “suppresses” the rights of workers by hiring false self-employed workers.
According to the prosecution’s account, the delivery drivers “look obliged to register as self-employed and pay their own contributions if they want to continue providing services for the company.
The investigation proceedings ordered by the public ministry occurred as a result of a report prepared by the Labor and Social Security Inspectionwhich in turn was sent to the State Attorney General’s Office last October.
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