Social association demands collective agreement at Lieferando

Too little security, too little pay and "start-up airs and graces" - the Catholic Workers' Movement's criticism of Lieferando is clear.

An attack from an unusual quarter: the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB) is demanding collectively agreed wages for Lieferando employees. The hourly wage should be raised from the current ten to 15 euros. In doing so, the KAB is supporting the demands of the Food, Beverages and Catering Union (NGG). "Courier drivers not only need permanent employment contracts, but also a socially fair collective agreement," says KAB Federal President Stefan Eirich.

But that's not all: Eirich denounces the entire gig economy, which pays its employees low wages and offers little security, while "the start-up founders line their pockets with venture capital." Delivery services such as Delivery Hero and Lieferando are making losses, which KAB attributes to the start-ups' drive to expand. "The bubble of start-up delivery services threatens to burst under fair conditions in the social market economy," suspects Eirich. The KAB is calling on Lieferando to "finally" shed its start-up airs and graces - "more than ten years after it was founded".

The KAB is a social association with 80,000 members nationwide and is guided by the Church's Social Proclamation, according to which people and not the economy should be at the center of politics.