Judgment in litigation 1 of the Social Area. The court was handed down in November 2022. According to this, the State Social Security estimated the complaint filed against Glovo in Navarra. This judgment recognised that between October 2018 and August 2019, 206 Navarros distributors of Glovo were workers of this company and non-self-employed workers.

Basically, the ruling explains how the company works with distributors and regulates its work with its algorithms, which makes these distributors not autonomous but Glovo workers. This judgment coincides with the ruling of the Supreme Court in September 2020, which clearly established the employment relationship between Glovo and its distributors.

As a result of the judgment, Glovo will have to pay the amount of 248,738 euros to the State Social Security and the 207 workers concerned will be able to ask the Social Security for the payments which, in their day, were made as self-employed in their pocket during that period.

Glovo will now have to decide whether the appeal will take him to the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra. However, it will be very difficult for companies like Glovo to defend the perspective of autonomy of their distributors. In addition to the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling, the Rider Act has been in force since 2021, which also encourages these companies to consider distributors as employees.