ELA has stressed that the Supreme Court ruling is “an important step against the precarious situation of this sector” and added that they will now fight for decent working conditions and salaries for these workers.
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The Supreme Court of the Basque Country (TSJPV) has confirmed the verdict by Bilbao’s social court number 11, which ruled that theGlovo deliverers are ‘false self-employed’because their relationship is of “labour nature” as explained by the ELA union.
In a statement, the union center recalled that the court’s decision was agreed with the 53 Glovo employees it represented, and the company has appealed to the TSJPV, which has now declared the verdict final.
ELA has emphasized that the Supreme Court ruling “an important step against the precarious situation of this sector and which spread to other areas”so that the distributors “will be subject to labor regulations.”
“Right now, and as the professionalism of those performing delivery tasks for these platforms is unquestionable, the challenge is to provide them with a protection framework that goes beyond the employee statute and the application of the inter-professional minimum wage,” he said. added.
For this reason, it has announced that it will promote the express regulation of this group in the provincial collective labor agreements for the hotel industry, “guarantee a minimum wage of 1,200 euros” ELA recalled that it has already promoted and reached a first sectoral agreement in the food distribution sector.
The union will also demand that the return of the allowances paid by these people as self-employed personsand will demand that “the lack of contributions” to Social Security “that they should have had as employees” be corrected.
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