- Employment rules could add 20-30 per cent to order costs
- Deliveroo and Just Eat already struggling with profitability
Gig economy companies could see margins squeezed further after EU bodies came to a provisional agreement to reclassify gig workers as employees automatically.
After several years of talks, the EU Parliament and European Council agreed a deal in December on new employment status rules which would “introduce a presumption of an employment relationship” between a company and worker when two of five indicators are present. These criteria include the fixing of working hours and pay by companies.