What does the Milan prosecutor give to Deliveroo, Glovo, Uber Eats and Foodora
Here are the sanctions and impositions decided by the Milan prosecutor for Deliveroo, Glovo, Uber Eats and Foodora. All the details on the maxi-investigation
Deliveroo, Glovo, Uber Eats and Foodora ended up in the crosshairs of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, which conducted a maxi investigation that led to fines of 733 million euros being raised to the main delivery companies operating in Italy.
Reason? The treatment of messengers who, for the power of attorney, must have a coordinated and continuous employment contract. 60,000 will have to be hired. All the details.
THE SURVEY ON DELIVEROO, GLOVO, UBER EAST AND FOODORA
Let's start from the beginning. Deliveroo, Glovo, Uber Eats and Foodora are involved in an investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Teresa Siciliano and by and prosecutor Maura Ripamonti (public health and safety department).
The investigation, which started in Milan after various road accidents during the lockdown, was conducted throughout the Italian territory thanks to the Carabinieri Labor Protection Unit (coordinated by Antonino Bolognani).
THE SURVEYED
Six suspects in the investigation launched by the Milan prosecutor, including the top management of the four companies, such as managing directors, chairmen of the boards of directors and security delegates.
THE CRIMES CONTESTED
And it is precisely the safety of the riders that is questioned. In particular, the companies are criticized for the violation of Law 81 of 2018, which in its various articles contains the rules on the health and safety of workers, including the obligations of risk prevention, the obligation of medical examinations and individual protection and training. activity-specific.
SICILIAN: UNACCEPTABLE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE FATTORINI WORK
“It is unacceptable” the way in which cycle-messengers are treated, said the deputy prosecutor Teresa Siciliano. ”These are people who ride their bikes all day with a heavy backpack and the risk of accidents is very high. It is hard, tiring and tiring work and the workers must be protected ”.
The prosecutor also rejects the "ranking mechanism". “It is not at all true that (the riders, ed) have the freedom to decide when to go to work, because those who cannot do it, even for just one day, perhaps for health reasons, are penalized” by the algorithm.
FROM AUTONOMOUS CONTRACT TO SUBORDINATE CONTRACT
And it is for this reason that the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office will notify Just Eat, Glovo-Foodinho, Uber Eats and Deliveroo verbal that they will require to transform the contracts of the riders from self-employed workers ( also foreseen contract signed between Assodelivery and Ugl) , to parasubordinates.
RECRUITMENT WITHIN THREE MONTHS
In practice, as many as 60,000 messengers will have to sign a coordinated and continuous employment contract. Companies will have ninety days to comply, and not run into an injunction.
FINES OF 733 MILLION EUROS
Not just a contractual obligation. The companies were fined 733 million, which, explains the prosecutor, can be extinguished by paying up to a quarter of the maximum penalty.
THE WORDS OF THE GREEK PM
"It is no longer the time to say that riders are slaves, the time has come to say that they are citizens who need legal protection," said the chief prosecutor of Milan, Francesco Greco. “In this Covid situation, the riders have played an essential function both to bring food to people and to allow many companies to survive, with deliveries”.
TAX INVESTIGATION ALSO STARTED
And there is more. The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has also launched a tax investigation into Uber Eats, the delivery division of the American giant, with the aim of "verifying whether there is a hidden permanent establishment" that hides the income of large delivery companies from the Italian tax authorities. After establishing where the customers' payments end up, the investigators will determine if the revenues obtained through the activity of the riders must be returned to Italy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/che-cosa-consegna-la-procura-di-milano-a-deliveroo-glovo-uber-eats-e-foodora/ on Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:39:45 +0000.