The bike with the square, orange-colored rucksack is a little apart in a stand on the Römerberg. His driver has put on the black T-shirt with the words "(un) limited" from the Verdi union in order to demonstrate with some colleagues on this Sunday morning for the rights of employees in his branch. One of them, Philipp Schurk, who has been a works council at Lieferando for two years, describes the situation at the delivery service: Each driver is initially only employed on a temporary basis, and that is used to put the employees under pressure and also to get involved in employee representatives to prevent. His colleagues report attempts to prevent works councils from being set up or to take away their time for works council work. That is also a reasonwhy they invited to the rally on a Sunday, because otherwise some speakers would not have been able to come, says the Verdi regional district chairman Jürgen Bothner.
Patricia Andreae
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Another works council reports that the food delivery company in Frankfurt had fewer than 300 employees a year ago, but now there are more than 700, and many of them are now afraid of losing their jobs. Because most of them are foreigners with limited residence and work permits, they must always fear that they will face difficulties with the immigration authorities when their contract expires. Two DHL employees with Anonymous masks confirm this and describe that over several years they have repeatedly received contracts with no reason. As a rule, they have to work six days a week, and if there is a shortage of permanent employees, temporary workers are always employed. If you get sick yourself or get injured at work,whose contract will expire. Contracts would not be extended even if greater damage was caused to one of the vehicles. Rather, it tries to make the employees liable for the damage.
Michael Rudolph, DGB boss Hessen-Thuringia, calls such conditions "disrespectful". Fixed-term workers were the first to lose their jobs during the crisis. In addition, they would hardly have a chance of finding an apartment. “It is not true that temporary employment leads to permanent employment,” he says. It is precarious and leads to poverty. Therefore, the time limit must be limited to a maximum of 2.5 percent of employees. “There is a trial period for everything else.” This should apply to all companies and not - as planned - only to those with more than 75 employees. Public employers such as universities are also no longer allowed to conclude fixed-term contracts with reference to budget law. They have to set a good example, says Rudolph.