Two days ago [21.09.2024] the trade union Inicjatywa Pracownicza Kurierów published a report from a meeting with representatives of the Glovo Platform. They tried to discuss the most pressing problems reported by people working as Delivery Drivers. Of course, Glovo did not provide any specifics, no dates. Zero.
However, what irritated us the most was Glovo’s position on the hourly rate for a delivery driver waiting for an order to be issued. Currently, this rate is SIX ZLOTY GROSS. Yes, yes, six zlotys per hour of work. Why does Glovo refuse to raise this rate? Because “the company’s budget is limited”.
It is therefore worth adding context to this scandalous (in our opinion) statement and reminding that:
- Glovo is a brand belonging to the Delivery Hero (DH) corporation. The corporation currently operates in over 70 countries under brands such as Foodora, Food Panda, foody, efood.gr, Instashop, Hungerstation and Yemeksepeti.
- DH bought Glovo almost three years ago for EUR 2.3 billion.
- DH’s revenues in the first half of 2024 are over EUR 23.5 billion, 6.3% more than in the first half of 2023. For comparison, EUR 23.5 billion is about PLN 100 billion, or roughly what Poland spent on healthcare at the same time.
- In Europe alone, DH’s revenues this year increased by 18.2%
- In the report for the first half of 2024, DH admits that in three countries (Portugal, Spain and Argentina), it has lost court cases for violating workers’ rights. The total amount of amounts to be paid (fines, arrears of wages and social security contributions) is over half a billion euros.
- On July 23, 2024, the European Commission opened a formal investigation against DH, accusing the corporations of participating in a cartel and monopolistic practices. DH’s management admits that it expects a fine of more than €0.4 billion.