MADRID (AP) — Spain fined courier company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that stipulates app-based The program’s food delivery platform must make its passengers full-time employees.
Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz said Glovo continued to treat its roughly 10,000 regular riders as self-employed, when they were supposed to be employees.
“We’re talking about workers who are not actually self-employed, so the full responsibility of the law will fall on the company,” Diaz said.
The minister confirmed the fine, originally reported by Cadena SER radio, to journalists in the Spanish parliament. Diaz said the penalty resulted from a job supervisor inspection that led Glovo to hire the 10,000 riders.
Glovo is a Spanish company with operations in 25 countries, mainly in Europe.
