ROME, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italian authorities have placed Foodinho, the Italian subsidiary of food delivery platform Glovo, under judicial supervision over alleged illegal recruitment and labor exploitation, local media reported on Monday.
Prosecutors in Milan issued an urgent decree appointing a court administrator to oversee the company's compliance with labor laws. Glovo's chief executive officer, Miquel Oscar Pierre, is also under investigation, according to Rai News 24.
Investigators found that some riders were paid as little as 2.50 euros per delivery, with wages up to 77 percent below the poverty line and more than 80 percent below sectoral collective agreements, breaching Italy's constitutional provisions on fair pay.
The alleged practices affected about 2,000 riders in Milan and a large share of the company's roughly 40,000 riders nationwide, many of whom are migrant workers.
Italy has no statutory minimum wage, relying instead on collective labor agreements across sectors. However, the poverty line is considered to be a monthly income of less than 1,218 euros for a family of two, and less than 730 euros for a single person, according to the National Institute of Statistics' (ISTAT) latest assessment. ■