Spain has fined Delivery Hero's Glovo 79 million euros ($78 million) for allegedly violating labour laws, its labour minister Yolanda Diaz said.
Glovo said it would appeal the decision, in which the labour ministry alleged it had failed to contribute to social security and make other payments from 2018 to 2021 as it did not hire its delivery riders under formal contracts.
Glovo said that it had fully collaborated with the labour ministry investigation, which it said took place before a new law came into force.
In May 2021, Spain passed the Rider Law, one of Europe's first laws relating to gig-economy workers' rights, requiring riders for food delivery platforms be made employees on formal labour contracts. This came into effect in August that year.
Read on: in English