According to dismissal – Demo: Dieusando deliverers took to the streets

Today’s demonstration was organized by the Vida Union and the “Riders Collective”. The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs agreed with the Union a rapid implementation of the EU platform work guideline.

Completely worked out
Half -Marart announced Liererando that his logistics model “can adapt to the Austrian industrial stand” in the coming months. Unlike Foodora and Wolt, the delivery service usually hired its drivers in Austria. “With the termination of our employee model, we will have to relieve around 600 drivers, with the exhaustion of all possibilities,” Liererando said two weeks ago. “Another 65 employees at our locations in Vienna and the federal states are being hit.” The dismissals have already been announced in the AMS Premature Warning System.

So far, the employer’s choice as a director has had the decision whether you as an employee or as a freelancer would like to work. “This freedom of choice is now fully eliminated”, because with Liererando the last employer of this industry, who hired the deliverers on a larger scale, according to the Vienna Director of the Vida, Susanne Haase Trade Union, as part of the demonstration. “In short, we are already revealing it to the other companies”, not to employ their employees after the collective agreement, said Haase. Foodora and Wolt would also have argued with competitiveness and flexibility for the trade union.

Fast implementation of the EU Directive required
“At the moment we know how much we get at the end of the month. This is no longer the case,” said a “rider” in the demonstration. A central question was the timely implementation of the EU directive for platform work. This was decided in 2024. “The EU member states have time to implement the directive in December 2026: but that must happen faster,” said time, “said ÖBG president Wolfgang Katzian. With the implementation of this guideline, the company should prove that someone has themselves to reverse the workers, the work, the work, the work, in the workers, in the workers, the work, in the future, in the workers, the work. Orders to the delivery people should be proven that rejecting an order has no disadvantages, Haase said.

“The recently announced mass terminations in Rieverando confirm how important it is to look at the topics of platform work and fake self-employed,” emphasized Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Korinna Schumann (Spö) in a broadcast after a job discussion with Katzian on Tuesday. In the government program there is a marriage that is possible to create the necessary legal framework, according to the former deputy Katzians in the Union Association and now top politician.

Social plan is negotiated
Union and Dieusando are currently negotiating a social plan. “There is no result yet. The negotiations will continue this week,” said the Vida Union when he was asked about APA. It is about terminals, paid items -search days and education and further training opportunities for employees. According to Haase, the trade union wants to concentrate on the negotiations in particular on further training. “There are expected notice periods that go beyond the legal six weeks, so that Liererando can keep the operation until the current logistics company is liquidated,” the Union said.

The delivery area was said to be negotiated “intensively” on the city council. They try “open, solution -oriented and trusting exchange”, therefore it would take place in the exclusion of the public.

Collective agreement “Quasi without employees”
The employees of DieroDando soon no longer benefited from the hard -bough’s collective agreement because the competition did not want to follow the example, Katzian regretted in a broadcast. “If they continue to work as a self -employed person, they probably work in self -unemployment, ie without a minimum wage, without a paid exemption to claim in the case of illness or vacation rights, without protection against dismissal and without a holiday rights.”

In Austria there has been a collective agreement (KV) for bicycle needers since the beginning of 2020. For comparison: according to Statistics Austria, the risk of poverty in 2023 was 1572 euros for one budget of one person per month. More recent numbers are not yet available. This collective agreement has now been “worn into the grave”. You have “no more employees in this KV,” Haase complained.

In the previous year, various warning strikes of food for the supplier of food took place to achieve higher wages and better working conditions. According to the estimates of the Union, around 2000 of 5,000 cyclists (“Ridern”) recently worked in Austria, the rest was en route as a freelance employee.

Platform work also subject in parliament
At the end of March, De Groenen raised a resolution in the Social Council of the National Council with a view to the announced dismissal at Dieusando to insist the federal government and responsible minister for rapid execution of the EU directive for platform work. According to De Groenen, the requirements for the correct legal classification of employees and the associated labor rights would create the fastest possible implementation. The government must submit a legislative proposal to carry out the directive at the end of September 2025, so that the necessary changes can come into effect at the beginning of 2026.