Delivery rider Manzurul Hoque from Bangladesh gestures during an interview at Universitat square in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Albert Gea
The move was spurred by a Supreme Court ruling in September that people working for Barcelona-based food delivery app Glovo were employees, not freelancers, a decision that could enable such workers to demand formal labour contracts and benefits. “Brussels sees our proposal as going in the right direction,” a government source, referring to the EU executive.But labour and legal experts fear that the main consequence of the legislation, rather than full staff contracts with gig companies, could be an ever greater reliance of the service sector on subcontractors and temporary work agencies.
When he died, Nestor Perez was working for an intermediary firm without having a personal Deliveroo account - one of many examples of how gig companies try to avoid having riders on their, and the responsibility for their working conditions.
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