Lieferandos bicycle bot: inside are delivered

At the latest at the end of July, around 1,000 employees will be terminated at Lieferando, as reported by the standard.at on Tuesday. Lieferando was the only company that employed its food deliverers: in the inside in decent employment relationships. The Austrian management and the Vida union have repeatedly pointed out that this model is unique and should be secured.

Better regulations for platform workers: create inside
Although there was a specific proposal for a legal change, the ÖVP with its blockage keeping in the last government ensured that socially compatible providers with employment relationships are under the bikes. It is cheaper for companies if you outsource the risks of the job to the drivers: inside and employ them as an independent and free employee: inside. However, it is neither cheaper nor desirable for the economy. International tech giant levers Austrian customs. It is one thing when you use legal scope. However, it is not legitimate that Austrian politicians: allow this to allow and these open flanks do not close. If politics does not contain these scope by laws, it creates further distortions here. The ÖVP must come to reason here, in the sense of the Austrian companies and the way for better regulations in the sense of the platform workers: free inside.

Precarious employment increases
“With this unsocial approach of the previous government, the number of false self-employed and free employees will increase drastically on the inside,” warns Markus Petritsch, chairman of the VIDA field. The union has been pounding for the abolition of free employee relationships for years, which are widespread in the growing platform sector. International corporations are targeting work standards in order to pass on risks such as poor order situations, illness or other employment prevention to employees – and thus maximize their own profit. The free employees: Inside and independent handlebars: on the inside, this procedure is delivered without protection.

Government has to protect workers:
For the delivery fund workers who are now losing their workplace, you can at least create a social plan. But the free employees: inside or self -employed who come after them will have no social security in the future. “Politics has put the protection of the platform workers on the long bank,” criticizes Vida trade unionist Petritsch. The new federal government is now required to protect employees, free employees: inside and sole proprietors: to protect internal companies for platform providers.

Lieferando presented itself as a model student for a long time – compared to competitors such as Foodora or Wolt – because the company had at least a large part of its employees: on the inside. In August 2024, the company offered its employees a “voluntary” increase in wage by 7.8 percent, while the collective agreement negotiations with the Chamber of Commerce had stalled. However, there can be no question of a good income: the gross wage of a rider is around 1,860 euros at a 40-hour week.