Glovo will have to pay a new fine from the Ministry of Labor: 56.7 million of euros per employ false self-employed and immigrants without permission work, according to Cadena SER. With this fine, the company already exceeds 200 million euros in sanctions.
This fine is for two sanctions from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate imposed in Madrid. The first is for having 7,022 delivery men working as self-employed flasos. For this he has been fined 32.9 million euros. In addition, Glovo will have to pay 19 million euros more in terms of fees that have not been paid by them to Social Security.
The second of the sanctions is related to employment as delivery drivers for immigrants who do not have a valid work permit. These make the deliveries thanks to the fact that many delivery men cross their license with the immigrants. So far they have detected that there are 813 immigrants working for Glovo without the necessary work permit to do so. For this he will have to pay 5.2 million euros. In addition, the Ministry of Labor is evaluating whether to denounce the company for exploitation of immigrant workers.
The fine and sanctions that Glovo has received in Madrid join those already imposed by the Labor Inspectorate in Barcelona and Valencia last September. In total, he will have to pay fines of more than 125 million for using false self-employed as delivery men.
In addition, since the inspection considers in all the cases detected that the distributors who work for Glovo are false self-employed, it also obliges the company to pay the arrears to Social Security that it would have had to pay since they started working for them if they would have been hired on the staff as Glovo workers.
These fines only worsen the economic situation of Glovo, which continues to have losses of hundreds of millions of euros. Its current owner, the German Delivery Herocontinues to resist changing her business model to hire all the delivery people who work for her.
Meanwhile, its competitors have adapted their model, and have either hired their delivery drivers or have outsourced the delivery service to companies that have hired their delivery drivers. Glovo, however, says that it has changed it, but the reality is that, according to the Labor Inspectorate, its workers are not on the payroll.
