How loophole costing just £70 a week allows migrants to skip background checks to work illegally for Deliveroo & JustEat
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A DANGEROUS loophole is allowing migrants to work illegally for Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats using the details of legitimate staff, a Sun on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our undercover reporter posed as a recent Afghan migrant on Facebook forums dedicated to hiring food delivery drivers, to highlight how riders are subcontracting their accounts to people who do not have the right to work legally in the UK.
![[A dangerous loophole is allowing migrants to work illegally for delivery companies including Just Eat]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/eat-employee-waiting-cross-traffic-956293540.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Within minutes he was offered the log-ins for company apps so he could receive orders in return for a fee — without any checks on who the driver really was. It allows migrants to become subcontract workers who are able to skip background checks and earn money illegally without the company they are riding for even being aware.
![[An Uber Eats bike bag outside a South London migrants’ hotel]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sun-sunday-investigation-migrant-delivery-955058903.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
This subcontracting practice, known as substituting, is accepted by the delivery firms and allowed under their terms and conditions. While companies have checks for who can work for them as substitutes, people are getting round these. And the loophole could be exploited by dangerous criminals to land jobs.
![[Illegal immigrants could be attracted to jobs for firms such as Just Eat]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/group-people-thought-migrants-wade-920618108.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
In 2022 Hampshire delivery rider Jennifer Rocha bit off a customer’s thumb in a row over a pizza but continued working for Deliveroo, even after the account she was using at the time was suspended. The same year, convicted drug dealer Jordan Da Silva managed to work for Deliveroo.
His past was only exposed when he posted a video of him unwrapping a female customer’s anti-fungal cream in front of her, and he was recognised on social media. In April, food delivery firms agreed to strengthen security checks to prevent illegal working.
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