CC OO denounces Glovo earlier than the National Court for finishing up a “covert ERE” | Economy | EUROtoday

The union with probably the most illustration in Glovo, CC OO, costs towards the corporate as a result of, in its opinion, it has executed a covert Employment Regulatory File (ERE). The union has formalized a criticism earlier than the National Court for the “massive” dismissal that, they criticize, the corporate has been finishing up, “far exceeding 30 dismissals in the last 90 days, which require the official presentation of an ERE.” CC OO already anticipated that it might take this path final week, after the corporate introduced the formal presentation of an ERE for 750 supply staff. The firm, contacted by this newspaper, has declined to remark.

The meals supply firm has raised the ERE lower than a yr after finishing its transition to a salaried mannequin, after years of stress from the Government and the justice system to desert its false self-employment scheme. In July of final yr, the workforce of salaried supply drivers was round 14,000 folks. The announcement that it might work solely with staff got here in December 2024, sooner or later earlier than its founder, Oscar Pierre, testified in a felony trial accused of a criminal offense towards staff’ rights.

In a press launch distributed this Thursday, CC OO assures that Glovo “is wanting to blame the workforce for its disastrous business management, which causes a loss of market share, and is trying to find a disposable model for using workers based on the volume of orders.”

CC OO assures, with out quantifying the dismissals, that “with the dismissals in a single province of Spain, Glovo exceeds 30 dismissals in a single month, most of them must be unfair.” The union explains that these departures, which it has been denouncing for months, are protected by a sanctioning regime “that should not apply to them based on the collective agreement applied by the company, which is the state agreement for courier companies of 2006.”

According to the union, “in some of the layoffs Glovo alleges alleged excessive average waiting times for delivery and what they call no shows [no presentarse]”. In addition, they say that several people have been sanctioned and fired “for missing a work shift on red level weather alert days.” The union says that it will try to reinstate these people, “to whom the company will also have to pay processing salaries.”

In the press release, CC OO takes the opportunity to once again criticize the subcontracting model that Glovo promotes in some territories and that governs other companies in the sector, such as Uber Eats. “The union understands that this outsourcing is an illegal transfer of workers that the company now wants to intensify after carrying out the mass layoffs, with the sole objective of precarizing, dividing and preventing the organization of workers at Glovo,” CC OO concludes.

According to Glovo, the ERE that it has presented is related to a contraction in the availability of the platform in some medium and small cities, due to operational complications. “Glovo is pressured to cut back its service in additional than 60 areas in several provinces of Spain to keep away from its closure. For the remainder of the cities, which exceed 800 all through Spain, the app [aplicación] Glovo maintains its regular operations for the second,” mentioned a spokesperson for the agency when saying the collective dismissal.

The second vp and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, then mentioned that her division will assure that Glovo complies with the foundations within the improvement of the ERE. “We are not going to allow any blackmail by Glovo or any other company. In Spain we only work with rights and that guarantees the rider law“, indicated Díaz on the Bluesky social community.