Netherlands: Deliveroo delivery drivers are not self-employed (Supreme Court ruling)

In a ruling handed down on 24 March, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands dismissed Deliveroo’s appeal against a decision previously made by the Court of Appeal on 16 February 2021 that had reclassified the platform’s delivery drivers as employees under contract. As a result Deliveroo has been definitively ordered to retroactively pay remuneration in the form of wages for the periods 2015-2016 and 2017-2019. To determine the subordination relationship, this final court of appeal in civil, crimi