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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. […]
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 […]