2024-02-02 15:56:15
At the food delivery company Foodora (formerly Mjam) in Vienna, the works council and union representatives were denied access to the company yesterday, as the vida union announced today. The employee representatives wanted to take part in an online works meeting in the works council office that was announced in a timely manner in order to inform the workforce about the stalled collective agreement negotiations.
At Foodora, employees’ statutory co-determination rights are being trampled on, criticized Markus Petritsch, chairman of the road department in the vida union.
“Elected works councils are prevented from carrying out the activities to which they are entitled under the Labor Constitution Act by being locked out of the works council office.” The union announced that it would examine legal action against the company.
Foodora: Works council member would have had access
The employer said in an email to ORF.at that they were informed in advance that the works council meeting would take place online and that no space would be required for it. “A few minutes before the meeting, a single member of the works council and several union members wanted unplanned access,” said a spokesman.
According to Foodora, the works council member was given access to the company premises, but it was pointed out that “union members, as people outside the company, do not have unauthorized access to the company premises”.
Only a few are employed under a collective agreement
There has been a separate collective agreement for bicycle messengers and food delivery workers since 2020. However, this only applies to around 2,000 of the industry’s total of around 4,000 to 5,000 employees.
The rest are freelancers or one-person companies (EPU), i.e. self-employed. However, they are not really free because they have to adhere to the delivery service’s rules defined in the delivery app.
According to the union, the vast majority of the approximately 3,000 drivers at Foodora receive their orders as freelancers; only a small number are employed under the collective agreement.
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