An employment contract with Lieferando is a prized asset
among international students in, in Berlin today.
Lieferando deploys the practice
of keeping the majority of its workforce
permanently on probation time.
Under German law you're all familiar that
when you're within your probation time
you do not acquire most of your rights under labor law.
When you are in probation time.
If you look at the hiring and firing practices in Lieferando,
you will see
that the vast majority of its workers are fired
within five months and 25 days.
Within five months and 25 days, they are fired
and they hire somebody else.
They do not let anyone cross.
Very few people cross over six months, right?
Which is when you start to acquire your rights under labor law in Germany.
This is the best employer in the sector I'm talking about.
there is consistent under- counting of working hours.
Consistent undercounting of working hours.
There are delivery workers who live in Spandau,
make their last order in Friedrichshain.
And then they have to make the one hour journey back to their homes.
That one hour is not counted.
Never.
If you were to include that one hour,
if you were to include that one hour, it is very likely
that they are being paid below minimum wage.
If you calculate the total amount, they are being paid.
And if you were to make an honest accounting of working time,
you will see that even Lieferando, the best employer in the sector
is paying below minimum wage.
Third:
The tools of work.
What are the tools of work as a delivery worker?
Bicycle. Mobile phone. Right?
Lieferando has consistently resisted paying for these.
Consistently resisted for years and years and years.
Workers like Samuel have had to fight
just for Lieferando to accept
that these are tools of work,
and that the employers should be paying for this.