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Uber, Gig Companies Seek Labor Deals to Avoid Workers Becoming Employees

BARCELONA—Gig-economy companies in Europe, under pressure over employment rights, are looking to strike labor agreements that give workers some benefits but stop short of making them employees.

Uber Technologies Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.-backed Deliveroo are among a number of food-delivery businesses seeking to secure deals with workers and unions in the hope of averting legislation that could force them to treat delivery drivers as employees, potentially upending their business models.

The effort follows several legal judgments across Europe challenging the companies’ view that drivers and couriers are independent contractors.

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