Spain: agreement recognizing the employee status of platform-based delivery workers (republication of an article published yesterday but not distributed due to technical issues)

On 11 March Spain’s Ministry of Labor announced an agreement had been secured with the social partners over a ‘Riders Law’ that frames the status of delivery riders working for digital platforms. They will be presumed as employees instead of self-employed (‘autonomos’), the platforms will have to contribute for them, and the delivery riders will benefit fully from social protection. The agreed text also states that all digital platforms (not only those operating in the home delivery sector) will have to inform workers' representatives about the algorithms that determine working and workload conditions.

Through . Published on 12 March 2021 à 15h48 - Update on 12 March 2021 à 15h44

Spanish Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who presented the agreement on 11 March, has indicated that it will lead to the upcoming approval of a ‘Riders Law’ in the Council of Ministers. “This is a pioneering law in Europe, but we are not regulating the platforms. We are addressing the issue of the employee status of a section of workers, limited to the distribution of goods,”…

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