Just Eat announced today that last Friday, November 29, it filed a lawsuit against Glovo in the Commercial Courts of Barcelona, exercising an action for unfair competition for violation of regulations and the hiring of false self-employed workers. Through this procedure they claim a total of 295 million eurosas damages and prejudices.
Just Eat argues in its statement that there are several sentences that have condemned Glovo for hiring delivery drivers like false self-employedviolating the labor regulations of our country. They argue that this situation places Just Eat in a situation of competitive disadvantagesince they do hire paid delivery drivers, incurring high additional costs, in accordance with the regulations.
Similarly, Just Eat estimates that Glovo has saved more than 645 million euros by hiring fake self-employed workers in recent years, acquiring a significant competitive advantage. Finally, Just Eat highlights in its statement that it was the first platform to sign a collective agreement with the main unions in the country, in December 2021.
Just today, Glovo has announced that it will allow the hiring of its delivery drivers. Since 2021, a law has been in force that reformed the Workers Statutestating that a courier who works for a platform is not a freelancer, but rather a employeewith all the rights that entails. The response from the platforms was mixed: Just Eatplaintiff in the case, adapted quickly. Uber Eatsthe third in contention, did it in half, giving its employees the possibility of choosing the model they prefer. For its part, Glovowho has just given in, has not paid attention until now.
Although the lawsuit was filed last Friday, Just Eat has decided to announce it todaycoinciding with the day before Glovo CEO, Oscar Pierre, has to Barcelona declare before a judge for a crime against workers. This case began in the social jurisdiction, although it has passed to the criminal jurisdiction, and was initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The collective rider this organizing to try to expand the criminal types that Pierre faces, understanding that the Prosecutor’s Office “has fallen short,” according to worker sources informing elDiario.es. The collective RidersxRightswho are pioneers in the fight against false self-employment in the sector, together with the Observatory of Algorithm Work and Society (TAS) tried to appear as a popular prosecutor in the case, but the judge set a very high bail.
With the complaint from Just Eat, another jurisdictional process opens that Glovo will have to face. This time it is not initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office, but it will be Just Eat, one of its main competitors in Spain, who will have to face in court.
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