Spanish bank Santander announced a “landmark agreement” with Uber Platform, which will create a “scalable financial instrument to support leading Uber fleet operators across Europe, including Spain, Germany, and Italy.”
Whatever this sentence means (we’re not fluent in financial newspeak), here are three facts from the three countries mentioned:
Spain: Uber owes nearly €110 million to the local Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) for unpaid contributions for over 60,000 people working as Delivery Drivers for the Platform, whom it falsely treated as self-employed instead of employing them under employment contracts – see here
Italy: Prosecutors have already accused two Delivery Drivers of “organized exploitation” of workers and are demanding explanations from several restaurant chains as to whether they are aware of this exploitation – see here
Germany: Trade Unions They expect a complete ban on hiring through Fleet Partners – see here
#zentrale_international
And also:
THERE ARE 6 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS LEFT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLATFORM WORK DIRECTIVE