On 11 March Spain’s Ministry of Labor announced an agreement had been secured with the social partners over a ‘Riders Law’ that frames the status of delivery riders working for digital platforms. They will be presumed as employees instead of self-employed (‘autonomos’), the platforms will have to contribute for them, and the delivery riders will benefit fully from social protection. The agreed text also states that all digital platforms (not only those operating in the home delivery sector) will have to inform workers' representatives about the algorithms that determine working and workload conditions.
Spanish Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who presented the agreement on 11 March, has indicated that it will lead to the upcoming approval of a ‘Riders Law’ in the Council of Ministers. “This is a pioneering law in Europe, but we are not regulating the platforms. We are addressing the issue of the employee status of a section of workers, limited to the distribution of goods,” the Minister insisted. The agreement, which comprises a few short paragraphs, is the result of lengthy negotiations betw
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