2023-12-22 13:32:15
This decision should now allow delivery drivers who were parties to the case to claim unpaid wages for the offending period concerned as well as social benefits to which any worker under a salaried contract is normally entitled. The National Social Security Office (ONSS), which was also a party to the case once morest Deliveroo, might also, on the basis of this decision, claim undue social contributions from the company for these workers and this period. Around thirty delivery men, who collaborate or were collaborating with the meal delivery platform Deliveroo, had attacked the latter before the Brussels labor courts. Supported by several unions, and joined by the ONSS, they believed that their work was more that of an employee than that of an independent, the status under which they have been working with Deliveroo for several years. The labor prosecutor’s office, which had carried out a long social investigation by questioning around a hundred delivery men, shared their position. In December 2021, a first decision was rendered by the Brussels labor court. He concluded that the work of the delivery men corresponded to independent work, as practiced in practice. But this Friday, the Brussels labor court reversed this judgment.
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