All your Riders will be used before the end of the year

“This is a transcendental day for platform workers.” Those were The words of the European Employment Commissioner, Nicolas Schmit, After approving the European Rider Law. One of the companies clearly affected by that law was Glovo, which leaves the model of false freelancers after 250 million euros and bring to trial its founder.

That decision is the conclusion of a long process.

The aforementioned European “Rider Law” was proposed in 2021 based on the Spirit of the Rider Law approved in Spainbut it was not until December 2022 when, under the Spanish presidency of the Council, an inter -institutional agreement with the community government and the European Parliament was reached. Was Great cuts in its content and protection, but Spain maintained its support for the text.

Glovo announced last December that he would totally change his labor model and would directly hire the distributorsinstead of keeping riders as self -employed. The measure will apply to all cities in Spain where Glovo operates and in all its verticals. It is the company that has taken the most to adapt to the “Rider Law” and the one that has suffered the most In the process. Others such as Just Eat adopted it from the first moment, which has allowed to avoid numerous fines.

For Glovo, however, reaching this point has been as we comment especially complex. This has been the chronology of this transformation process:

• May 2019: UGT files a complaint Against Glovo After the death of A deliveryman In Barcelona. According to the union, the company violated the rules of Occupational Risk Prevention.
• November 2019: The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid Solve that Glovo’s Riders are false freelancers. By then Glovo had 1,000 employees and presence in 26 countries.
• September 2020: the Supreme Court Judgment that Glovo’s distributors are false freelancers
• May 2021: The Government Approves The Royal Decree-Law known as the Spanish Rider Law.
• September 2022: Glovo receives the first great Fine of 78.9 million euros applied to a company for breaching the ‘Rider Law’. It wouldn’t be the last. According to the Ministry of Labor, Glovo had 10,614 workers as false freelancers at that time.
• November 2023: The entry into force of the Rider Law in August 2021 does not seem to change too much Things: two years later the companies continued “stretching the gum not to hire any rider. “
• December 2023: Europe begins the project Create a European ‘Rider Lawand takes as a Spanish model to make it a reality. The objective: protect 5.5 million false freelancers.
• March 2024: A European pre -agreement for the approval of the European ‘Rider Law.

The CEO of Glovo, Oscar Pierre, He recently promised that “we are going to complete the transformation towards a 100% labor model this year.” However, He continued to maintain that the freelancer model is “the one that best suits our orders curve”. The demand, he explained, is very volatile, so “having a flexible model Allows you to pay more and give more work. “

The government does not share that opinion, and in fact Pierre is in the midst of an investigation for crimes against the rights of the Riders. Testified Last December accused of adopting the model of false freelancers with the aim of “reducing their business costs,” the Prosecutor’s Office describes. The process follows its course, and may have been one of the triggers of that radical change in the Glovo labor model.

That statement and that change in the labor model are adopted in Glovo by obligation, but its CEO He already declared In February that “we will hire 20,000 workers, but they will gain less than as self -employed.” It remains to be seen if that promise is fulfilled, but there is a striking fact: Delivery Hero, the company owner of Glovo, has provided a total of 400 million euros for face possible fines In Europe for anti -competitive practices.

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