MADRID (AP) – Spain has fined delivery company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that forced app-based food delivery platforms to make their riders full employees, Spain’s labor minister said Wednesday.
Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said Glovo continues to use about 10,000 regular riders as self-employed workers when they should have been hired as staff employees.
“We’re talking about workers who are not actually self-employed, and so the full burden of the law will fall on the company,” Diaz said.
The minister confirmed the fine, originally reported by Cadena SER radio, to reporters in the Spanish Parliament. Glovo hired those 10,000 riders as a result of fines resulting from inspections by labor monitors, Diaz said.
Glovo is a Spanish company that operates in 25 countries, mostly in Europe.
