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Glovo, a food-delivery platform, has informed trade unions of its intention to implement an Employment Redundancy File (ERE) that could affect up to 750 delivery riders across 60 Spanish cities. The measure comes less than a year after the company shifted from a self-employed model to directly employing its couriers, following prolonged legal disputes with the Spanish authorities and mounting labour sanctions.
According to the platform, owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, the restructuring aims to prevent the closure of operations in smaller and medium-sized cities, where fluctuating demand has made the salaried model less sustainable. Glovo currently works with around 21,000 couriers, either directly employed or via subcontracted fleets. The company has acknowledged that service reductions in the affected cities are intended to safeguard overall viability, while maintaining normal operations in over 800 other locations nationwide.
The consultation period with unions has already begun. Unions criticise what is described as “covert redundancies” and alleged anti-union practices, threatening nationwide mobilisations if working conditions are not renegotiated.
The company did experience two previous restructuring events in 2023 Glovo 2023-ESand 2024Glovo 2024-ES, with 250 and 100 job cuts, respectively.
Eurofound (2026), Glovo, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 204388, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204388.