The platform claims that the Catalan company has “saved more than 645 million euros in recent years by hiring fake freelancers” and that this has allowed it to “gain a significant competitive advantage.”
The home delivery platform Just eat Spain has filed a lawsuit against Glovo before the commercial courts of Barcelona unfair competition in which he demands 295 million euros for resorting to bogus self-employment.
In a statement, Just Eat Spain announced this past requirement November 29and has explained that he is claiming that amount from Glovo as ‘damages and losses’.
This platform of Danish origin claims that Glovo, founded in Barcelonabut owned by German Delivery Hero, has “saved more than 645 million euros by hiring fake freelancers” in recent years and has thus been able to “gain a significant competitive advantage.”
Just this Monday, Glovo announced that it will change its model of relations with employees in the Spanish state, which until now has been based on having independent delivery workers, and that it will draw up employment contracts, an announcement made a day before its co- board members come. founder, Oscar Pierredeclare that an investigation is underway before the judge in Barcelona, which is investigating whether it has violated the rights of its employees.
In the statement, Just Eat Spain recalls that “glovo has been convicted in numerous sentences for hiring delivery drivers such as false self-employment and violation of labor legislation“, which puts Just Eat “in a clear situation of competitive disadvantage” as it “engages paid delivery drivers as required by law, which entails high additional costs,” the company argues.
For its part, Glovo has framed this turn in its labor strategy “within the framework of its firm commitment to Spain, its country of origin and its main market” and has specified that it will open a dialogue table with social actors to facilitate the process of model change.
The company has pointed out that the model change will be implemented in all cities where it delivers be greater than 900and in all branches of the application, although it is not specified when this will occur, nor when the dialog table will be opened.
Source: EITB
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