Troubled Just Eat axes 1,700 delivery rider jobs
Troubled Just Eat to cut 1,700 jobs: Takeaway giant will no longer employ its own delivery drivers
Just Eat is cutting 1,700 jobs and will no longer employ its delivery drivers in a major turnaround from its CEO.
The takeaway company said the self-employed – known as gig economy – will deliver food to employees in the UK. Employed riders have been given six weeks’ notice with pay.
Just Eat saw business boom during the pandemic as restaurants closed, but customer numbers have fallen in recent months.
Cut jobs: Just Eat said the self-employed – known as gig economy – will be delivering food to workers in the UK. Employed riders have been given six weeks’ notice with pay
It operates a combined system of employee and self-employed delivery drivers, having become the first food delivery company to hire delivery drivers in December 2020.
Boss Jitse Groen has previously blasted the gig economy’s impact on workers and called for more regulation of the industry.
But an industry source said Just Eat had “got a piece of plain pie” after yesterday’s “embarrassing turnaround”.
A spokesperson for Just Eat said it was “reorganizing and simplifying delivery as part of its ongoing aim to improve efficiency.”