Trade union FNV is taking Deliveroo to court for paying its delivery staff as if they are self-employed while in fact they are not. The union claims the riders are employed by Deliveroo. The union states that Deliveroo is using a fake self-employment set-up in order to pay less for their work than they would if they hired them as employees. Deliveroo doesn’t have to pay social insurances for so-called ‘freelancers’, neither it has to guarantee them fixed hours.
Read on: in English …
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers or Sanne van der Gaag, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Willy De Backer wdebacker@etui.org © ETUI