After months of negotiations trade unions have signed an agreement with the Laconsegna food delivery platform that gives their riders a permanent contract with rights and protections. This is the first agreement in the country that governs subordinate work for riders. The agreement recognizes riders as subordinate workers with the right to apply the national contract, get the hours they actually worked paid instead of being paid not on the basis of deliveries and recognition of the rights and protections that are assigned to all workers in the sector such as paid vacation and sick leave. Trade unions expressed their hopes that the agreement reached with the food delivery platform will lead the way to other agreements that protect the rights of workers in the gig economy.
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