Dispute over works council at Flink enters next round

The company has won a small partial victory in court in the dispute over a works council. The dispute has been dragging on for weeks.

The express delivery service Flink has won a small partial victory in the dispute over a works council at the labor court in Berlin, according to Tagesspiegel and Gründerszene report unanimously. The advocates of a works council had asked the company to obtain the data of all employees in order to ensure that only employees attend a works meeting. Flink had refused for data protection reasons. In the end, the labor court ruled in favor of the company.

It is the next climax in a dispute over a possible works council for the Berlin-based e-commerce service that has been escalating for months. Employees would like to organize representation there, for which they must first organize a works meeting. An election committee is then elected at this meeting, which in turn can organize a works council election. The first meeting was actually supposed to take place in July, but was postponed by the organizers. The next meeting could now take place at the beginning of September.