The return of labor law

About the “Rider Law” and the GLOVO case

Abstract

In this article an analysis is made of digital delivery platforms, and how their emergence has changed the traditional labor relations, resulting in the development of these platforms originating other business models, which develop their activity from an App, modifying the form of hiring, therefore, the type of contractual relationship, and it is through the lawsuits filed, that the SC, through the Judgment no. 805/2020, knows and qualifies the provision of services rendered by a rider as an employment relationship, becoming a unifying and pioneering ruling which due to its transcendence it is necessary to analyze it, examining the differences between a self-employed worker economically dependent (TRADE) and an employee, delving into the signs of dependence and subordination, as well as the form of provision of services of collection and delivery of orders made by GLOVO delivery drivers, or what has been called crowsorting -off line-. Consequently, and in compliance with said ruling, Royal Decree-Law 9/2021 of May 11, known as the "Rider Law", was passed, which amends the revised text of the Workers' Statute Law, for which reason we will assess the significance of this regulation and its effects.