Spain: Just Eat bolsters collective agreement with greater job stability for delivery staff

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On 15 January 2025, the food order and delivery platform Just Eat signed its second company agreement. It raises the salaries of delivery workers and gives them the opportunity to work longer hours and aspire to career development. Other players in the delivery sector meanwhile persist in their refusal to apply the salaried status, even though it is provided for by law.
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More than three years after the ‘Riders’ law’ came into force, establishing the presumption of salaried status for platform delivery workers, the Just Eat takeaway group remains the only player in the sector to have fully applied the legislation. Its delivery staff, who had previously been self-employed (‘autonomos’), have been given employee status, mostly on a part-time basis, with social security contributions, insurance and holiday pay covered by the company. At the same time, Just Eat...

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