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Portuguese Supreme Court finds Glovo rider meets criteria to be an employee
Food delivery couriers for Glovo are employees, the Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) found on May 28 2025, bringing clarity to a legal dispute over the issue in the southern European country. Portugal introduced a rebuttable legal presumption of employment in the platform economy to its labour code in May 2023, based on a […]
Italian judiciary takes partial control of Glovo and Deliveroo
The Italian judiciary’s bid to clean-up the Italian food delivery industry expanded in March 2026 to include Deliveroo. Just weeks after Milan public prosecutors took partial judicial control over Glovo to end alleged illegal labour practices at the company, the same prosecutors were authorised by a judge to do the same at its largest competitor, […]
Court of Pamplona reclassifies 206 Glovo riders as employees
The judgment of the Social Court No. 1 of Pamplona has ruled that between the digital labour platform Glovo and its delivery riders there is an employment relationship, and that they are not merely self-employed, as stated by the company. The lawsuit was filed by 206 Glovo delivery workers and the trade union confederation CCOO. […]
The rider is a subordinate worker: Milan’s Labour Court orders Glovo to reintegrate him
On 29 November 2022, with a first instance decision, Milan’s Labour Court ordered Glovo to reintegrate a rider that had been disconnected and to give him an employment contract. The decision of the Court was based on the Italian Jobs Act (art. 2 of the legislative decree 81/2015). The Jobs Act states that collaborators who […]
Italy : The Court of Parlemo classifies a Glovo rider as employee
The Court of Palermo has ruled that the Spanish delivery platform Glovo has to reclassify a courier as a full-time employee. As the relationship between the courier and Glovo was an employee-employer relationship, the Court had Glovo pay the courier an hourly wage instead of remunerating him per delivery. The rider had initially gone to […]