A court in Madrid acknowledges that the delivery company should have hired workers who had to use their own vehicles to deliver the products
Court 14 in Madrid condemns Amazon for using delivery drivers as bogus self-employed workers. Specifically, this court declared the employment relationship of 2,166 delivery drivers who were forced to work with their own vehicle to deliver parcels using a business application that indicated how to work (Amazon Flex). The ruling acknowledges that these employees should have worked as employees.
This is evident from the judgment of this court collected by the legal services of the UGT. In this sense, it is excluded that the company acts only as an intermediary between the companies and the distributors, emphatically recognizing that “ultimately, the elements of dependence and alienation coincide, which determine the analyzed legal relationships that the liquidation must satisfy.” , as common industrial relations”.
The sentence states that this “means estimating the claim by stating that the reflected persons maintained an employment relationship, in the specific periods when each of them provided services within the period to which the Settlement Act applied.”
The court considers that the concept of employee, consolidated in the CJEU, aims at a broader concept of employment contract. “This view, which has been included in Spain by the Ryder law, which takes into account the emergence of companies that provide services through new technologies and digital platforms,” they indicate from UGT.
Source: La Verdad
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