US EditionGlovo to Transition Spanish Delivery Riders to Employee Status Following Legal Pressure
- Thousands of delivery drivers in Spain for Glovo will become full-time employees following the company's announcement on Monday to switch to an employment-based model.
- This decision was influenced by years of pressure from the Spanish government for labor contracts for app-based drivers.
- Glovo's move aims to avoid legal uncertainties and includes paying employee contributions for benefits such as sick leave.
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Delivery app Glovo bends to Spain's Riders Law, will hire thousands of couriers
Glovo, a Spanish delivery app owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, has bowed to pressure over labor rights in its home market. The company announced Monday it will hire around 15,000 riders — most of them are currently “self employed” according to Glovo. Per Reuters, the company also warned of a €100 million hit to earnings. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The CEO of Glovo , Óscar Pierre , has declared this Tuesday in the courts of Barcelona as being investigated for an alleged crime against the rights of the workers . A statement that comes a day after the announcement of the company to hire its distributors that, according to the prosecution charge, which formalized the complaint against them, operate as false autonomous ones . For this reason, Pierre has denied to the judge that the decision is…
Food delivery company Glovo will offer permanent employment to its outsourced delivery drivers in Spain, the German company Delivery, which owns Glovo, has announced.
Glovo and its owner since 2022, Delivery Hero, have always chosen to kick forward with the legal front of their work model, trusting that in the future they were given the right. But now the company has decided to change the course, before the penal siege to its managing director and to the own group. The platform of food at home will hire directly the distributors. It puts the bandage before a new flood of cases, after the Labour Inspectorate h…
Founded in Barcelona in 2014, Glovo is now present in 25 countries and in nearly 1,500 cities. In Spain, he currently works with nearly 15,000 people, the vast majority of whom are self-employed.
Drivers for Spanish food delivery app Glovo will become full-time employees
MADRID (AP) — Thousands of delivery drivers in Spain working for the food delivery app Glovo will soon be full employees after the company announced Monday that it was moving to an employment-based model. The decision follows years of pressure from the Spanish government to give app-based drivers labor contracts. In a statement, Glovo’s parent company Delivery Hero said that Glovo is moving from a freelance model to an employment-based one to av…
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