"In the next few days, the European Commission will arrange a package of interventions" dedicated to the protection of riders, the workers of digital platforms such as Uber and Deliveroo, "we can only be satisfied with this timely response" and "we will also integrate the path we have taken with national tools. it needs to be defined at the European level ". This was stated by the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, at the end of the meeting with his European counterparts in Brussels. In recent days, Italy had written a letter to Brussels together with other EU countries to urge a community initiative to regulate these categories of workers.
"Italy - added Orlando - has already intervened with a protocol to combat illegal hiring, which unfortunately does not only concern agriculture but also technologically advanced sectors, but this is not enough".
Uiltrasporti, an important signal from Europe
"Next Wednesday, the EU Commission should launch the work package which will finally address an issue on which we have worked so hard, that of the recognition of riders as subordinate workers." The Secretary General of Uiltrasporti Claudio Tarlazzi comments in a note on the European directive which should introduce the "presumption of subordination" for jobs via digital platforms. "From Europe comes a very important signal that we welcome positively. We have fought a lot in recent years for the improvement of working conditions and the recognition of the rights of riders. We managed to sign, in March last year, an agreement with a of the major delivery platforms in Italy, for the application of the national collective bargaining agreement for logistics,but despite the exponential growth of the sector has led the number of these workers to exceed one and a half million, there is still no specific legislation in our country. The European decision therefore goes in the right direction, but there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure clear and binding rules for everyone to avoid any form of exploitation, too often encouraged by the absence of specific regulations ".absence of specific regulations ".absence of specific regulations ".
