Spain's gig economy poses labour rights conundrum as regulation eyed

Glovo deliver rider passes by a pedestrian area in Barcelona, Spain, February 23, 2021. Picture taken February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Albert Gea

MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of kilometres (miles) away from his native Venezuela, 48-year-old Nestor Perez died last month on the streets of Madrid when he was hit by a garbage truck while delivering a food order for Deliveroo.

Such tragedies have cast a spotlight on the precarious conditions of often immigrant workers in Spain's gig economy at a time when the government, ahead of its European peers, is drafting legislation to regulate the sector.