Glovo starts the year with new staff cuts. The home delivery platform plans to apply an ERE to lay off a hundred people who work in the supermarket product delivery division, known as Super Glovo. The measure affects approximately 10% of the total team that works in this activity.
According to company sources, the layoffs will take place in the six centers of Bilbao, Pamplona, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Alicante and Granada. In these cities, the service will soon cease to be operational.
The company, founded in Barcelona, justifies the decision due to a drop in order demand and the difficulties of attracting financing from market investors. Since 2022, the company has been owned by the listed group Delivery Hero, based in Germany.
These sources ensure that the Super Glovo service remains available in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, Seville, Málaga and Palma. In total, they employ around 900 people.
The UGT union warns that despite keeping these centers active, Glovo has tightened the working conditions of these employees. "The company has withdrawn from the agreement and has cut salary remuneration by eliminating supplements such as transport bonus, holiday work or clothing bonus." Union sources allege a dubious bad economic situation. Furthermore, he maintains, "these places do not have another regularized work center."
At the beginning of last year, Glovo announced another staff cut that affected the Barcelona headquarters team. A total of 250 people were laid off, 6.5% of the entire team. The company also justified the measure due to the unfavorable macroeconomic situation. Then, it had just carried out the integration with the German group's operations.
In the central offices and in the supermarket division, the company employs salaried workers, unlike the delivery team for the rest of the products, which operates under the self-employed regime. Despite the Rider Act and a Supreme Court ruling, the company has maintained this operating model.
