Department of Social Protection to examine delivery rider contracts in 2022

The department pushed back against suggestions by Deliveroo that offering certain benefits to its riders would interfere with their self-employed status

The company argued that legislation ‘hasn’t kept pace’ with modern working trends and claimed that, as a result, the company was ‘constrained’ in its ability to offer other benefits to its riders. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The Department of Social Protection plans to engage with the on-demand delivery sector in Ireland to examine worker contracts and determine whether delivery riders should be allowed to be treated as self-employed, the Business Post has learned.

Deliveroo, the on-demand delivery platform, met with Damien English, Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail, and a number of representatives from the DSP on October 21 last to discuss existing working legislation and Deliveroo’s desires for ...