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Germany
Consultation with social partners on a draft proposal for transposition of the Platform Work Directive remain ongoing. A key sticking point is what to include in the law on intermediaries. Unions have argued for a direct employment mandate which would prohibit sub-contracting in the platform economy, following the example of the meat industry in Germany. […]
Lieferando axe 2,000 jobs in Germany
Lieferando (Just Eat Takeaway) cut 2,000 jobs in Germany, as part of a major re-structuring of the country’s largest food delivery platform. The job cull, announced in July 2025, amounts to about 20% of the workforce. The company is also hiring riders via sub-contractors for the first time, having first trialled the move in Berlin. […]
Code of Conduct
The code of conduct at hand is a self-imposed guideline for prominent crowdsourcing companies that has been initiated by the crowdtesting provider Testbirds and will be continuously developed and improved. Its aim is to create general guidelines about how to act in regards to crowdwork and thereby create a basis for a trusting and fair […]
YouTubers Union and IG Metall “FairTube” Campaign
YouTubers Union led by a Berlin-based YouTuber has joined forces with IG Metall to ask YouTube to improve transparency and communication around monetization and views of videos. YouTubers Union and IG Metall launched the formal campaign FairTube. They are collectively protesting YouTube’s 2017 changes in its advertising rules, elaborating proposals for improved communication, fairness, […]
Advice for Self-Employed
Ver.di offers self-employed individuals special information, support and an opportunity to become actively involved. Concerning platform workers, the measure develops on the idea to elaborate some recommendations for action for unionists about what to do for crowd work.On the basis of a survey with unions’ officials and works councils in 2016, it came out IT […]
Deliveroo Works Council in Cologne and other German cities
In January 2018, Deliveroo riders in Cologne announced that they would hold works council elections in February. Despite Deliveroo’s resistance to this initiative, including the dismissal of permanent staff and erasing the internal chat allowing workers to organise shifts, elections led to the setting up of the first Deliveroo works council in Germany. Riders had […]
Foodora works council in Cologne and other German cities
Foodora riders in Cologne elected their first works council in Summer 2017. This was also the first works council to be elected by riders of the platform economy in Germany. Foodora’s riders in Cologne started organising through a Whatsapp group chat, but soon went to NGG, a German trade union active in the food, beverages […]