Work assures that Deliveroo conceals an authentic labor relation with the deliverers

Deliveroo home delivery company "conceals" an authentic employment relationship with their delivery, according to Assignment service the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate of Valencia, which has extended the corresponding quota settlement minutes for the contributions that the company should have paid .  This is reflected in a letter from the Inspection in response to the complaint filed in July by the Trade Union of Treballadors of the Indústria, Comerç and els Serveis-Intersindical Valenciana against the company Roofoods Spain (Deliveroo), reported this union at a press conference. 

The head of the unit specializing in the Social Security area of ​​the Provincial Inspection of Valencia has carried out inspections on the company to determine the nature of the relationship with bike delivery drivers (riders), who have determined that it is an authentic employment relationship and, therefore, there has been a lack of registration and contribution in the General Scheme.  In its complaint, Intersindical said that the company imposed a commercial relationship with the delivery workers to be hired, which led the workers to register in the Autonomous Regime.  However, the union considered that "each and every one of the requirements demanded by law and jurisprudence to characterize the work of a relationship", and understood that the "commercial appearance" of the relationship "can only be considered as a tax fraud imposed by the defendant as an illicit requirement to be able to access the job. "  The Inspectorate has already communicated its registration, and if applicable, it falls under the General Scheme in the company during the respective periods of provision of services, as well as the corresponding quota settlement act, according to the information provided by the inter-union.

Distributors with Deliveroo material

According to Intersindical, distributors work with part of the means and materials provided by the company, and follow the orders and guidelines of their hierarchical superiors and under their rules of organization.  The company establishes a work schedule by means of a weekly calendar and the distributors work with a vehicle of their property (bicycle or motorcycle), and they receive a plus for associated expenses, and a mobile phone also of their property.  For the execution of their functions, they need a mobile phone application that is owned by the company and it manages it, and they receive a fixed remuneration of 8 euros per hour of work

Deliveroo will appeal

These actions are not firm and have been appealed by Deliveroo, which will give rise to the initiation of an ex officio proceeding before the social jurisdiction, which will definitely declare or not the existence of the labor relationship between the workers of Valencia and the company. write my research paper cheap In a statement, Deliveroo has indicated that the act has no legal effect in terms of the consideration of self-employed or labor relations, as it is a proposal for liquidation, and has assured that the competence to declare the existence or not of employment relationship corresponds to the courts of justice.  For Deliveroo, the Labor Inspectorate has presented a proposal based on a relationship model with distributors that is no longer in force in Spain.  According to a spokesperson for the company, the company trusts that the status of self-employed workers will be demonstrated, as has been stated by recent rulings in the United Kingdom and France, in which it has been proved that these workers who collaborate with Deliveroo are autonomous.  The company explains that its model "gives riders the flexibility they demand, adapting the work to their lifestyle and fulfilling the characteristics of the workers on their own, among them, the freedom to accept orders, the freedom to schedules, the contribution of the means of production and the assumption of economic risk of their activity ".