Glovo, a Spanish delivery app owned by Germany's Delivery Hero, has bowed to pressure over labor rights in its home market. The company announced Monday

App-based food delivery firm Glovo's freelance riders in Spain will be hired as employees following pressure from the government to give them labour contracts, its German owners Delivery Hero said Monday.

Thousands of delivery drivers in Spain working for the food delivery app Glovo will soon be full employees after the company announced that it was moving to an employment-based model.