BarcelonaThe Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona has filed a complaint against the top managers of the company Glovo for crimes against the rights of its workers, as it has advanced The newspaper. The public ministry accuses the managers of the company for its model of hiring freelancers, which has been in court for years.
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The group maintains a pulse with the Ministry of Labor and could face a range of fines from 260 to 430 million euros for non-compliance with the regulations, according to the annual report for the year 2023 of Delibery Hero, the giant German owner of Glovo. In fact, the report calls into question the viability of Glovo to meet the payment of Social Security fees and penalties.
The investigation by the Barcelona Public Prosecutor’s Office began a few months ago to find out if the company continued to breach the so-called rider law by hiring fake freelancers. The investigation began after the Labor Inspectorate sent its report on the performance of Glovo’s trading companies. Since the 2022 reform, the Penal Code punishes crimes against workers’ rights with prison terms of six months to six years.
Then the Ministry of Labor believed that the company could have violated the Penal Code for “not meeting the requirements that were made for it to recognize its delivery workers as workers on behalf of others”, as stated by the rider law Until now, Glovo’s argument has been to defend that its model changed once the rule was approved and that from that moment couriers had more freedom to decide on rates and schedules.
In fact, the actions of the Labor Inspectorate had already led to the fact that the company had to impose several sanctions in the case of the so-called false freelancers.
2024-06-29 08:57:38
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