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Just weeks after Spain became the first EU member to give delivery workers labour rights, firms that employ them like Uber Eats or Just Eat are still struggling to adapt to a new law which may become…
Just weeks after Spain became the first EU member to give delivery workers labour rights, firms that employ them are still struggling to adapt to a new law.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of kilometres (miles) away from his native Venezuela, 48-year-old Nestor Perez died last month on the streets of Madrid when he was hit by a garbage truck while delivering a food order for Deliveroo.
Delivery rider Manzurul Hoque from Bangladesh gestures during an interview at Universitat square in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Such tragedies have cast a spotlight on the precarious conditions of often immigrant workers in Spain’s gig economy at a time when the government, ahead of its European peers, is drafting legislation to regulate the sector.
It is the latest challenge to the freewheeling gig economy model in Europe after a landmark UK ruling requiring Uber to pay the minimum wage to its drivers, with the European Union set to propose an EU-wide regulatory framework by year-end.
By Beln Carreo and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of kilometres (miles) away from his native Venezuela, 48-year-old Nestor Perez died last mon.