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EU clears €4.1bn Just Eat takeover but prevents food delivery mega-merger

Brussels approves Naspers’ takeover of Just Eat Takeaway.com but orders Delivery Hero’s owner to sell down rival shares to safeguard competition in Europe’s food delivery market.

Euronews

EU antitrust fines food delivery giants in landmark cartel case

The investigation marks the first-ever EU antitrust case involving a minority shareholding, as well as the first enforcement of EU competition rules concerning labour markets.

Euronews

Drivers for Spanish food delivery app Glovo will become full-time employees

Thousands of delivery drivers in Spain working for the food delivery app Glovo will soon be full employees after the company announced Monday that it was moving to an employment-based model

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Delivery Firm Glovo Riders In Spain To Become Employees

App-based food delivery firm Glovo's freelance riders in Spain will be hired as employees following pressure from the government to give them labour contracts, its German owners Delivery Hero said Monday.

International Business Times

EU Opens Probe Into Possible Online Food-delivery Cartel

The EU launched an investigation on Tuesday to determine whether online food-delivery companies Delivery Hero and Glovo engaged in anti-competitive practices.

International Business Times

Conned, exploited, trapped: Romania’s new flock of Asian delivery riders

The jobs and conditions that await Sri Lankans barely resemble the opportunities offered to them by shady agents.

Al Jazeera

Algorithms are hiring and firing us now – but tougher EU laws could protect workers

The rise of management by AI raises urgent questions about data and big tech. We need new legislation to tackle it, says innovation economist Francesca Bria

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Is June the Time to Buy Up McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) Stock?

Given its global reach, leading fast food chain McDonald’s (MCD) is well-positioned for solid long-term growth. However, is this the ideal time to buy the stock? Let’s find out.

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Spanish court: Amazon violated labor law with delivery app

A Spanish court says Amazon broke labor laws by forcing more than 2,000 delivery drivers to use an app that the company controlled for scheduling work and payments as well as requiring them to use their own cars and cellphones on the job

The Independent UK

Spain plans ‘digital nomad’ visa scheme to attract remote workers

Scheme includes tax breaks and gives Britons and other non-EU citizens chance to stay up to five years

The Guardian - UK

Spain fines delivery app Glovo 79M euros for labor violation

Spain has fined delivery company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that obliged app-based food delivery platforms to make their riders full employees

The Independent UK

Offering taste of normality, McDonald's reopens in Kyiv seven months into war

Kyiv residents braved the cold to queue for hours on Tuesday as McDonald's opened three branches in the Ukrainian capital that had been shut since the Russian invasion began nearly seven months ago.

Reuters

Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Meal couriers sweat amid heatwave

As Europe braces for another heatwave, one group of workers has little choice but to sweat it out: the couriers shuttling around town getting lunches and dinners to customers.

Reuters

Delivery app Glovo to provide humanitarian support in Ukraine

Spanish online delivery platform Glovo has partially resumed operations across 20 Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, to provide essential services and give humanitarian support, it said on Tuesday.

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