Glovo-Foodinho, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo challenge the minutes that would impose the compliance of their couriers
Glovo-Foodinho, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo challenge the minutes that would impose the compliance of their couriers
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The four food delivery platforms that ended up at the center of the investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office on the working and safety conditions of riders (Glovo-Foodinho, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo) have already made or are preparing to appeal against the administrative minutes of the Labor Inspectorate which required the regularization of 60 thousand cycle-messengers, from self-employed to “continuous coordinators”, with all the guarantees of subordinates. The first to move were Glovo and Just Eat, followed by Deliveroo. Uber Eats, an offshoot of the private chauffeur service, would be ready to queue up in the coming days. Also on the front of the disputes concerning the offenses for violations on the safety and health of the riders, investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office, a legal battle is being prepared. If the companies do not pay the fines, amounting to 733 million euros, within 90 days, they will proceed through legal proceedings.
The dispute over the classification of workers
The investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office marked a turning point, also at a legal level, with respect to the job classification of the so-called riders: the messengers who deal with home deliveries for delivery platforms. At the center of the dispute is the professional classification reserved for riders. For the deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano and the prosecutor Maura Ripamonti, who investigate the phenomenon, all the positions open between 2016 and October 2002 must be considered as para-subordinate work. Therefore, all workers must be guaranteed protection and safety. To support them, the prosecutor Paolo Storari who is conducting a parallel investigation for tax crimes. Platforms, on the other hand, continued to define self-employed riders.
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“The remarks raised regarding internal processes can hardly be ascribable – says Glovo in a note – as underlined in the minutes of the National Labor Inspectorate, Article 2” of the Jobs Act “which applies the discipline of subordinate work to collaborative relationships that take the form of exclusively personal, continuous and hetero-organized work performances ». For all platforms, with the exception of Just Eat which has announced its own recruitment plan, the national contract is valid, signed by Assodelivery only with the union acronym Ugl, which provides for this type of classification.