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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The CEO of Glovo, Oscar Pierre, has assured the Examining Court 31 of Barcelona that the company's decision to make employment contracts to its distributors, announced on Monday, is aimed at avoiding discussions in the courts and with the Labour Inspectorate, although it considers that its current model is legal, and has dissociated this announcement from its defence strategy as charged after a complaint by the Public Prosecutor's Office for a p…
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.
Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025
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…
In the country, the platform has more than 15 thousand employees, most of them independent. The Glovo home delivery platform announced, this Monday, that its couriers will become salaried workers in Spain, where the company was fined for not complying with labor laws when using independent workers without contracts to make their deliveries.
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