Glovo announces a workforce reduction plan to lay off 750 workers in Spain

BarcelonaGlovo informed unions on Wednesday that it is opening a workforce reduction plan (ERE) that will affect 750 workers across Spain, as previously reported. The CountryThe delivery company will reduce its service in more than 60 locations across the state, which it has not yet specified, "to avoid closure," as explained by a company spokesperson.

The measure comes just over eight months after Glovo will begin to hire its delivery drivers in July of last year. A change of model forced by the Rider Law approved by the Spanish government, which allowed them to put an end to ten years of using bogus self-employed workers to send their packages.

"After this difficult decision, the company will continue working to consolidate its operating model," a Glovo spokesperson emphasized. According to the Catalan company, now owned by the German firm Delivery Hero, the restructuring will not affect approximately 800 Spanish cities, where normal operations will continue. Throughout Spain, Glovo has 21,000 delivery drivers, both directly employed and through third-party companies. Glovo declined to specify which 60 locations will be affected by the restructuring, but indicated a long list of provinces, including Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, and Girona. The company also stated that layoffs are planned in Valencia, Alicante, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara, Cáceres, Badajoz, Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Las Palmas, Gipuzkoa, Ceuta, and Melilla. After the "disguised layoff"

The formal opening of the collective dismissal procedure (ERE) comes after unions such as CCOO and CGT warned that the company was implementing a "disguised ERE." The CGT points out that at least 300 workers have been laid off in the province of Barcelona since July of last year. "This is not the first time they have resorted to this type of fraudulent practice," the CGT lamented. These dismissals are in addition to the "disconnections" of delivery drivers that the union says occurred with the change in the employment model. These drivers were never actually hired.