The food delivery platform Uber Eats announced this Thursday that it will "stop collaborating with self-employed delivery drivers," four years after the law was passed. rider. "Uber Eats reaffirms its commitment to compliance with the law rider“After four years of gaining experience working with logistics experts, and to foster a sustainable long-term model, we have decided to discontinue our partnership with independent delivery drivers,” company sources stated. The California-based company also clarified that drivers still using the Uber Eats app as independent contractors will be able to continue working with the firm. This decision comes after the Ministry of Labor threatened criminal charges for non-compliance with regulations. had recently posted several announcements on the platformUber Eats, which is finally following in Glovo's footsteps, changed its operating model last summer and stopped using bogus self-employed workers. Last month, the Catalan government also urged the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate whether Uber was committing a crime against its delivery drivers. Since 2022, Uber Eats had operated with a hybrid model, in which drivers could choose between being self-employed or salaried employees through the external fleets that subcontracted them. In 2025 alone, more than 7,000 drivers were hired by one of these subcontractors, the company noted on Thursday. "We express our commitment to fulfilling our obligations, as well as our intention to end all pending litigation, and we are available to drivers, unions, and the government to guarantee a fair process for everyone," according to sources at Uber Eats.

The minimum wage, new bereavement and palliative care leave, and the crackdown on Uber Eats. These are the three issues that will shape the agenda of the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, during the first weeks of 2026, at least in labor matters. This comes at a time of great weakness for the Spanish government due to... alleged cases of corruption and sexual and workplace harassment As the pressure mounts on Pedro Sánchez's inner circle, Díaz sees economic and social measures as the opening through which the government can find some breathing room. They also represent a way for the government to define its profile, especially given the upcoming regional elections – beginning with Aragon on February 8th.

The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has announced that a campaign by the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate is underway "right now" to monitor the use of algorithms by large technology companies operating in Spain. "Whether they're called Uber, Cabify, or Amazon, whatever their name may be, we will monitor the use of algorithmic control that these companies have over workers," Díaz stated this Thursday during her appearance before the Labor Committee in the Congress of Deputies. She explained that this measure is part of a "step forward" to improve quality employment in technology companies that establish themselves in the country. Díaz criticized these companies, "very modern, of the 21st century," for sometimes operating "with Dickensian, 19th-century conditions." "We will not tolerate the Amazon model, which allows its employees to work 120 hours a week. We will not tolerate the tech company model that uses monitoring bracelets to track how long employees spend in the bathroom. It's not just Amazon; there are many others," she asserted.

Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, declared war on Uber this Thursday in response to the alleged violations it is committing in Spain with the use of fake self-employed workers on its UberEats delivery app. "I'm not going to fool the Spanish government, and I can tell you now that the full force of the law will fall on this company in response to the violations it is demonstrating in our country," she stated during the presentation of the Labor Inspectorate's strategic plan for the period 2025-2027.