Gorillas employees elect works council

The delivery service tried to stop the election with an urgent application, but failed. Now the committee is in place.
Last week, Gorillas employees elected their works council. 19 works councillors now represent the interests of the bicycle couriers and order pickers vis-à-vis the company management. As Gorillas is currently testing a franchise model in Berlin(we reported), it is still unclear which employees the works council is responsible for.
According to information from the Taz only five percent of all employees in Berlin voted. During the election week, the delivery start-up asked employees to notify their supervisor at least one day in advance in order to be allowed to vote. In this way, Gorillas prevented spontaneous voting, as the Berlin newspaper reported. In the whole of Berlin, voting was only possible in Friedrichshain.
The dispute over the works council has been going on for some time. Gorillas tried to prevent the election with an urgent application. The company management criticized the procedure for appointing the election committee in particular. The election notice had not been posted in all the required places and contained errors. Both the Berlin Labor Court and the Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Labor Court dismissed the complaint.

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