Takeaway giant Just Eat is to cut 1,870 couriers and staff as demand slows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BBC reports<\/a> the company said it will stop employing its own couriers and will use contractors instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This will result in 1,700 job losses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: New Look announces more redundancies with 70 head office roles at risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The company will also lose 170 operational staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The drivers and riders involved have been given six weeks’ notice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Just Eat saw a nine percent slump in customer numbers in 2022 after Covid rules were relaxed and diners started returning to pubs and restaurants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The couriers work for Just Eat’s “Scoober” service, which means they are classed as workers for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They get paid a fixed hourly rate, an uncapped bonus and other benefits, like sick pay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? <\/strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, most of the firm’s delivery drivers are contractors who do not enjoy such perks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A spokeswoman said: “We have proposed to transition away from the worker model for couriers, which is a small part of our overall delivery operations – running in certain parts of six UK cities.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n She added that the move would not affect Just Eat’s services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and <\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The company said it will stop employing its own couriers and will use contractors instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-business-news","category-uk-employment-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}