Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Deliveroo
Deliveroo - Credit: Photo: Môsieur J. / Wikimedia Commons - License: CC-BY
Business
Deliveroo
freelancers
permanent employees
CNV
Lodewijk Asscher
Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
Philip Padberg
Maurice Limmen
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 15:00
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Deliveroo to replace employed deliverers with freelancers

Meal delivery service Deliveroo is gradually replacing all its employed delivery personnel in the Netherlands with freelancers starting on Tuesday, CEO Philip Padberg said to the Financieele Dagblad on Tuesday. According to him, this will result in delivers' net income increasing.

According to Padberg, the delivers and the market asked for this themselves. They can earn more working as freelancers, and it gives them more freedom. Deliverers who want to remain on a permanent contract can do so, he emphasized. Deliveroo also started a collective liability insurance for the freelancers, which covers some of the risks, but not all. Freelancers will have to have their own insurance to cover accidents.

This construction is rather controversial, according to NU.nl. Minister Lodewijk Asscher of Social Affairs and Employment previously criticized a delivery service who tried a similar construction in Zuid-Holland.

Trade unions are also unhappy about this development. According to CNV, "clubs like Deliveroo hollow out the labor market by competing on uncertainty and insecurity for employees." Chairman Maurice Limmen called this a "sad earning model". The union called on the new, currently still forming, government to put an end to this. "Employees must be able to work safely through decent minimum rates, pensions and insurance."

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • 90 Dutch nature reserves need substantial improvements: Minister
  • Hairdressers selling booze is not the best idea, says State Sec.
  • Cool and precipitous weekend weather; temperatures to climb next week
  • Boxtel cop fines unlicensed driver, aged 18 months
  • Death threats against Rotterdam mayor on Feyenoord banners
  • Dutch police lacks long-term vision: Inspectorate

Top stories

  • Three hurt, including one child, in theme park ride accident
  • More female managers, but wage gap remains
  • Only male aldlermen in 46 Dutch municipalities
  • More reformed schools denouncing homosexuality despite uproar
  • Defense refused to help manage crowds at Schiphol, CEO says
  • KLM stops ticket sales on Amsterdam flights; Schiphol unveils crowd management plan

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content