office workers balloon CEO and founder of the company, Oscar PierreUntil now, he usually had a motto that he repeated in each of his speeches to the team. As Pierre always proudly emphasizes when he gathers his employees, “We hire an average of 1.5 engineers a day at Glovo”. Partly for this reason, many were completely taken aback when they received a statement just over a month ago that 147 people would be killed. dismissedalmost 9% of the workforce.
Sarah – a fictitious name to maintain his anonymity – he remembers how he learned that he was one of those who were gradually fired during that day. He says he’s lost access codes to different apps he usually uses for work and chains meetings, making it increasingly clear that fewer and fewer people are called at those meetings. fire him. “you are paused“, they told them.
They sent him home, and he’s been waiting there ever since, negotiating job after job interview to move in at other companies while they finish file negotiations. “Losing my visa is my biggest fear“, account. And this Latin American arrived in Barcelona a few months ago, when Glovo went to recruit him on the other side of the pond. Your residence permit is dependent on a special work permit for highly skilled staff and is dependent on an existing contract. They must leave the country within 90 days.
like sara martha -fictitious name-, it will be a business relationship that will barely last a year. While working as a data analyst in Latin America, Marta also contacted a recruiting company at the end of 2021. They were looking for skilled workers to join the ranks of programmers and other ‘technicals’ who would develop it. algorithm the company known for the yellow backpacks carried by thousands of ‘riders’ on the street. They did all the paperwork for him, provided him with all the amenities, and gave him a bonus for moving out.
Marta, who enters with a salary of 150 thousand liras, says, “I started the selection process because I was curious and finally accepted it due to the circumstances.” 59.000 € more than three times what the average worker in Spain earns per year. And the conditions of a Glovo office worker are far from those of one of the delivery men who carry their orders and earn about five euros an hour.
The salaries of the 1,700 workers in their offices are approx. 4,000 euros gross per monthYoung people have very high qualifications and therefore, they can change jobs every two or three years, depending on the offers they receive. That’s why Glovo will recruit many from all over the world, from France to India, through Chile or the UK. “If I find out after a year that they kicked me out on the street, I won’t accept it. My dream was not to come to Europe unlike other people in need. i feel disappointed”says Martha
minimum compensation
Now Marta and Sara, along with 145 other colleagues, are two of those affected by Glovo ere, which has been negotiating for several weeks and for which the victims have turned to the law firm for their defense. Collection Tour. On the other side of the table, he advises Glovo: Crowe Spain and both sides face the last two weeks of the consultation period. At the moment, according to what Ronda said, Glovo’s proposal is to fire 147 affected for unfair dismissal, i.e. one month’s salary, given the bare antics.
“A lot Insufficient. With that, you can pay a month’s rent in Barcelona here and very little. Many of us have had to hire lawyers To manage our visas if we don’t want to leave the country,” says Sara. “I don’t believe all this surprises them, it just isn’t well run. They make a speech in front of the public saying that they are helping us, that one of their core values is ‘is’.care-be careful- and adds that they are very concerned about the vulnerable situation they have left us in, but then you see the opposite at the company level.
Many of those affected by Glovo ere are fathers or mothers of families who brought their loved ones with them to start a new life in Barcelona when it knocked on their door. “A colleague of mine brought his wife and two children in. He’s the only salary he’s ever gotten, and his compensation isn’t even enough to pay the rent for leaving home early,” counted as template sources.
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Glovo comes after major tech companies like Google, Meta, Twitter or Amazon have announced layoffs in recent months mainly due to low growth prospects. The company, led by Óscar Pierre, justified overstaffing in some areas and accumulated economic losses.
The company’s loss of 300 million euros in 2022 also dragged its parent company, the German company, into losses. delivery hero. It has owned Glovo since December 2021 and for this operation the ‘glover’ dome has awarded a bonus of 115 million euros to the shares of the German company. Delivery Hero has promised its investors it will make a profit this year and announced that it will lay off 150 of its Berlin employees, a day after Glovo announced its anniversary.
As Glovo negotiated the exit conditions for these 147 workers, linkedin in total 44 job offers For positions in Barcelona or Madrid offices. Project managers, advertising analysts, systems engineers or cybersecurity specialists are some of the in-demand profiles.
All 44 of these proposals were released after the company made public its intention to lay off about 150 people at its Spanish offices. And many, according to their complaints, are for profiles that are very similar, if not identical, to ere-affected workers. A Glovo spokesperson says, “The positions posted do not correspond to positions affected by ERE. In any case, we will review titles and job descriptions in case anyone’s wording causes confusion.”
“It clearly demonstrates that there is no justification for the file,” the Collectiu Ronda’s lawyer concludes. Nacho Parra. “From the beginning, it was a procedure fraught with malice and lack of humanity. Because they went out to look for a lot of people and now they want to leave them on the street with a month’s salary,” he adds.