All the troubles of Just Eat: the scoober model closes in the UK and fires the riders
The reorganization in Great Britain raises some questions about the sustainability of the Scoober model, also because Just Eat is not applying it everywhere but only in certain areas
Just Eat Takeaway.com, a platform that allows you to order food online with home delivery, known above all for having been among the most enthusiastic companies in the sector with reference to the European rules for the contractual regularization of bicycle delivery men , declared that it is moving towards reorganization of Great Britain.
REVERSE ON SCOOBER, INVOLVED ABOUT 1900 RIDERS
It thus ends the service in which it employs its own couriers, a decision that will impact the jobs of around 1,870 employees, according to the Guardian . Riders employed by Just Eat's UK 'Scoober' service have been given six weeks' notice warning they will not be employed on full-time contracts, Just Eat said in a statement. In their place will be pedaling freelance workers. Another 170 employees in the company's operations department will also be terminated.
The move comes after the firm saw a 9% drop in customer numbers last year, as Covid regulations eased and customers returned to pubs and restaurants.
Already active in some of the countries in which the group operates, the Scoober model provides for the classification of riders as employees: a choice that allows them to have holidays, sickness, maternity/paternity leave, allowances for night work and holidays, insurance coverage , free safety devices supplied, mandatory training and social security protection.
LEOPARD SPOT SCOOBER
However, the reorganization in Great Britain raises some questions about the sustainability of the model. Just Eat has said it will maintain the dependent courier model in most of mainland Europe.
But, looking at the matter more closely, the Scoober model is applied in a leopard spot. In Ireland and Slovakia the company uses the gig model. In France, Just Eat uses “Scoober” courier employees in Paris, but not in other cities. In the rest of the European Union, the company hires its own couriers. Just in Great Britain, more than 90% of deliveries are made by self-employed workers.
The company said the use of employees rather than self-employed workers in the UK puts it at a competitive disadvantage.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia-on-demand/tutti-i-guai-di-just-eat-chiude-il-modello-scoober-in-uk-e-licenzia-i-rider/ on Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:59:54 +0000.