Couriers and companies oppose legislation to turn delivery riders into employees
Europe’s first law to turn delivery riders into employees is facing widespread pushback from the couriers and the companies that use them, showing how difficult it will be to change the business model.
For the other riders, Glovo has updated its employment model to provide “the flexibility, autonomy and independence valued by the majority of our fleet,” it said in a statement. Javier Alejandro and Jason Padilla, who were waiting for work outside a McDonald’s in Madrid, said they left Uber Eats after it contacted its riders over plans to shift them onto fixed-hour contracts via employment agencies to comply with the new law.He and Padilla wanted to remain free agents so they could choose their working hours and days off. So the two went off to work for Glovo.
Just Eat Takeaway.com’s Spanish business was already using couriers employed by subcontractors and is now negotiating a collective agreement with the country’s main unions, the company said.Labor organiser Gutierrez estimates that about half of Spain’s couriers work by borrowing accounts registered to other people, making it harder to coax them to join the official workforce.
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