With Legislative Decree 101/2019, converted into Law 128/2019, the Legislator intervened to protect workers involved in home delivery of food by bicycle or scooter, better known as “riders”.
The aforementioned law, introducing an ad hoc regulation for these self-employed workers, has included in the Legislative Decree 81/2015 a new head, the V bis (“Labour protection through digital platforms””), establishing, in particular, art. 47 bis, that “”the provisions of this chapter establish minimum levels of protection for self-employed workers who carry out goods delivery activities on behalf of others, in urban areas and with the help of velocipedes or motor vehicles […] through platforms including digital ones. “”
Riders have therefore become a category of (self-employed) workers recognised and protected by our legal system.
First of all, it has been established that individual contracts for this type of worker must be proven in writing and that the latter must receive all information useful for the protection of their interests, rights and safety.
With regard to the remuneration due to riders, the Legislator has provided that collective agreements entered into by the trade unions and employers&rsquo
