Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Glovo, a food-delivery platform, has informed trade unions of its intention to implement an Employment Redundancy File (ERE) that could affect up to 750 delivery riders across 60 Spanish cities. The measure comes less than a year after the company shifted from a self-employed model to directly employing its couriers, following prolonged legal disputes with the Spanish authorities and mounting labour sanctions.
According to the platform, owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, the restructuring aims to prevent the closure of operations in smaller and medium-sized cities, where fluctuating demand has made the salaried model less sustainable. Glovo currently works with around 21,000 couriers, either directly employed or via subcontracted fleets. The company has acknowledged that service reductions in the affected cities are intended to safeguard overall viability, while maintaining normal operations in over 800 other locations nationwide.
The consultation period with unions has already begun. Unions criticise what is described as “covert redundancies” and alleged anti-union practices, threatening nationwide mobilisations if working conditions are not renegotiated.
The company did experience two previous restructuring events in 2023 Glovo 2023-ESand 2024Glovo 2024-ES, with 250 and 100 job cuts, respectively.
Updated 13 May 2026:
Glovo has reached an agreement with trade unions on a collective redundancy plan (ERE) affecting 436 delivery riders, significantly fewer than the 750 initially proposed in March. Of the agreed total, up to 68 dismissals may ultimately be avoided if affected workers accept reassignment to larger nearby municipalities, located approximately 19 kilometres from their original base. The negotiations also preserved operations in nine cities that had faced closure. In terms of compensation, the agreement establishes severance payments of 37 days per year of service (four days above the statutory maximum for unfair dismissal) rising to 42 days in areas where redeployment is not possible. This restructuring follows Glovo’s transition last year to an employment model under which all riders were hired as employees rather than self-employed contractors.
Eurofound (2026), Glovo, in Spain, factsheet number 204388, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204388.
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