Deliveroo still owes pension contributions for its Dutch employees. Because delivering meals is Deliveroo's core business, it should join the Transport Pension Fund. The company must retroactivelypay 638,000 euros to this fund.
This was decided by the court in Amsterdam in proceedings brought by the Industrial Pension Fund for Professional Transport. According to the court, Deliveroo is a meal delivery company, which means it meets the conditions for mandatory participation in the pension fund.
Overdue premiums
Deliveroo is now obliged to pay pension contributions for all employees - delivery drivers and office staff - with an employment contract. In the first years that Deliveroo operated in the Dutch market, all delivery staff worked under such a contract. For them, the company has to pay premiums retroactively. This amounts to more than EUR 638,000.
Deliveroo: 'We are a tech company'
Deliveroo maintains that it is a tech company that advertises meals. As a result, it says it does not have to join the Professional Transport Pension Fund. The company is appealing against that ruling and will not have to pay until it also decides that the meal delivery company must pay pension contributions. The court has granted a request to do so.
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Whether Deliveroo also owes contributions for self-employed workers - with whom it has worked exclusively since November 2017 - is still unclear. Earlier this year, the court ruled that these self-employed delivery drivers do fall under an employment contract. The appeal in this ruling is still pending.
