Just Eat: Takeaway firm to cut 1,900 jobs in UK

Takeaway transportation steadfast Just Eat is to chopped 1,870 jobs successful the UK aft a slowdown successful sales.

The steadfast said it would halt employing its ain couriers and lone usage freelance ones, resulting successful 1,700 occupation losses. 170 operational roles volition besides go.

The drivers and riders affected person been fixed six weeks' notice.

It comes aft the institution saw a 9% slump successful lawsuit numbers past twelvemonth arsenic Covid rules eased and diners returned to pubs and restaurants.

A spokeswoman for Just Eat said the restructure would amended ratio and person nary interaction connected its services.

"As portion of this process we person projected to modulation distant from the idiosyncratic exemplary for couriers, which is simply a tiny portion of our wide transportation operations - moving successful definite parts of six UK cities," she said.

The couriers affected enactment for Just Eat's "Scoober" work and are afloat employees of the company, getting paid a fixed hourly rate, an uncapped bonus and receiving different benefits.

Just Eat has been a salient protagonist of plans successful Europe to marque its couriers afloat employees. But it uses freelance drivers and riders to present much than 90% of its meals successful Britain.

The firm, which is the largest online takeaway ordering and transportation institution successful Europe, has said utilizing employees alternatively than gig system workers successful the UK puts it astatine a competitory disadvantage.

Competitors including Deliveroo and Uber usage the "self employed" oregon "contractor" model.