The Government has already reacted to Glovo’s decision to stop working with false self-employed workers and carry out a massive regularization, and has done so through Vice President Yolanda Díaz. “This is the most important affiliation movement in the history of Spain carried out by the Labor Inspection”he commented upon arrival to the Employment Council held this Monday in Brusselswhere he assured that “hundreds of people have given their all to ensure that the law is complied with.” This has been exposed after Glovo announced that it will have riders hired in Spain.
The company ensures, at the same time, that the new approach will include all cities and will be applied to all verticals. He insists that will open a dialogue table with the unions to “provide all the guarantees to the process.” It is a decision confirmed just one day before its CEO, Óscar Pierre, testifies before the judge for an alleged crime against workers. For Díaz, this is “a victory for democracy.” Furthermore, it estimates this step at around 267 million euros, not counting sanctions.
“The rules we make and who we govern for matter,” commented the Vice President of the Government, before repeating that “a young man who travels on a bicycle is not an entrepreneur”, in a premise that the Executive has maintained since the beginning of this ‘fight’. “We have made regulations that provide this, with the so-called law riderand to get a directive to achieve what has happened. No company can impose itself on democracy,” he concluded.
In Díaz’s eyes, this does not have to stop here. “If this model is possible in Spain, it is possible in the EU. We are showing that we can do what we were told couldn’t be done.“, she added from the community capital. And she did so before an Employment Council that is scheduled to debate the new directive on paid internships. Regarding this, the vice president has accused the Hungarian presidency of the Council of trying to limit these regulations. “We want to put an end to with a failed model, which is the low cost model”.
But the Glovo issue has been the key to the day, as the company has given in to pressure. In recent years it has maintained a fight with the authorities, defending a model of autonomous delivery people that, even after several modifications, he was punished by the Labor Inspection. As reflected in a recent order of the Supreme Court, advanced by The InformationTo date, quota settlement minutes for an amount of 88 million euros and inspection actions had already been issued in 39 provinces. There were 140 judicial proceedings – 124 of which are currently open.