Platform work across Europe
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Italy
The Italian Government published the 1 May Decree, which has to be made into an Act within 60 days. The 1 May Decree includes four articles which relate to platform work, and is likely the starting point for the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive, although these articles are by no means comprehensive of […]
Italian judiciary takes partial control of Glovo and Deliveroo
The Italian judiciary’s bid to clean-up the Italian food delivery industry expanded in March 2026 to include Deliveroo. Just weeks after Milan public prosecutors took partial judicial control over Glovo to end alleged illegal labour practices at the company, the same prosecutors were authorised by a judge to do the same at its largest competitor, […]
The rider is a subordinate worker: Milan’s Labour Court orders Glovo to reintegrate him
On 29 November 2022, with a first instance decision, Milan’s Labour Court ordered Glovo to reintegrate a rider that had been disconnected and to give him an employment contract. The decision of the Court was based on the Italian Jobs Act (art. 2 of the legislative decree 81/2015). The Jobs Act states that collaborators who […]
Court of Bologna reclassifies Deliveroo rider as employee
On 25 February, the Labour Court of Bologna ruled that Stefano Mancuso (rider for Deliveroo and, later, Just Eat) is an employee of Deliveroo. The rider decided to go to Court when his account was deactivated after he refused to sign the Assodelivery-UGL agreement (that was later declared illegal by the Court of Bologna). The […]
Italy : Reclassification of Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat riders
Following a secret inquiry, the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office has established that the employment relationship of riders working for different digital platforms (Foodinho, Glovo, UberEats, JustEat and Deliveroo) cannot be considered as occasional independent work, but must be reclassified as hetero-organized collaboration. The Court gave the companies 90 days to hire 60,000 workers. In case […]
Italy : The Court of Bologna condemns Deliveroo’s algorithm for discrimination
On 31 December 2020, the Court of Bologna ruled in favour of the complaint brought by CGIL’s Bologna sections of FILCAMS, NIDIL and FILT. According to the complaint, Deliveroo’s algorithm, called Frank, discriminated workers and restricted their access to working slots following absences for strike, or for health or care reasons. The judge ruled completely […]
Italy : The Court of Parlemo classifies a Glovo rider as employee
The Court of Palermo has ruled that the Spanish delivery platform Glovo has to reclassify a courier as a full-time employee. As the relationship between the courier and Glovo was an employee-employer relationship, the Court had Glovo pay the courier an hourly wage instead of remunerating him per delivery. The rider had initially gone to […]
NIdiL CGIL
The CGIL launched its NIdiL (Nuove Identità di Lavoro – New Work Identities) section in 1998 to ensure the representation and protection of atypical workers. Today, NIdiL represents several categories of atypical workers, such as temporary workers, collaborators, freelancers, and the unemployed. NIdiL is committed to preventing the abuse of self-employment status. When workers are […]
Sindacato Networkers
Sindacato-Networkers is one of the first trade union platforms to be addressed to ICT professionals and employees in the services sector, and to gig-economy and platform workers. To these workers, Sindacato-Networkers offers a series of services including individual online advice on work-related problems, such as advice and help with fiscal matters. Within the website, a […]