The controversial food delivery company Glovo has announced that it will abandon its false self-employment model and hire its employees. This announcement comes after it has accumulated 200 million euros in fines and unpaid contributions and the day before its founder Óscar Pierre declares this Tuesday, December 3 in a criminal proceeding against him, in which he is accused of a crime against workers' rights.
In a statement issued to the media this Monday, Glovo announces that it is moving to a 100% employment model and that its delivery drivers will have employment contracts. In response, the Minister of Labor of the Government of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, defends that this will be the "most important affiliation movement in the history of Spain" and that it will allow the regularization of 60,000 workers. In addition, she has stated that "no company, no matter how large or powerful, can impose itself on democracy".
Glovo has announced that this change of model "will include all the cities" in which it is available, "which currently exceed 900". Meanwhile, it has assured that this measure "will maintain at all times the user experience and that of the restaurants and establishments that collaborate with the application throughout the country".
The rider law and the conflict with Just Eat
Last year 2021, the Government of Spain, formed by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos, approved the rider law to protect workers who operate in Spain as false self-employed workers. To date, Glovo had accumulated millionaire fines from the Labor Inspectorate, but continued without regularizing its employees.
In addition, Just Eat denounced Glovo last Friday for unfair competition and is claiming up to 295 million euros in damages from the company, since this second company does hire its delivery drivers.
