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COURIER firm Glovo has been fined €79 million (£69m) for violating a law-obliging app-based food delivery platforms to make its riders employees.
Spain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz said Glovo had continued to treat about 10,600 regular riders as self-employed in defiance of the 2021 law.
“We are talking about workers who are actually not self-employed, and so the full weight of the law will fall on the company,” Ms Diaz said.
She told Spanish MPs that the violations had been exposed during inspections, and that following the penalty Glovo had hired the 10,600 riders affected.
The minister, a Communist Party member of Spain’s left-wing governing coalition, said the heavy fine reflected the company’s “obstruction” of the work of the Labour Inspectorate, which she said was “very serious.”
Spain’s “rider law,” an effort to bring employment rights to super-exploited workers in the gig economy, has reshaped the food delivery sector with some major players like Deliveroo quitting the country entirely.
