The conflict over unpaid Overtime in the case of a subcontractor of DHL in Geneva, attracts more and more circles. The Union Unia made this Morning a further publicized the case. This Time it goes to a driver who was dismissed without reasons. The former employee believed that he had been on the road, because he is involved in a trade Union. The subcontractors have well-feared, he wanted to get his nearly two weeks of Overtime paid out.
Already the beginning of April, the Unia had to inform you about a company owner that is pressed with a special mesh before wage demands: He organized a sort of chain bankruptcy of subcontracting.
Unia increases the pressure
in order To deliver packages, working DHL locally with partners. This to the couriers and pay their wages. To the outside of the sub-contractors occur with the Logo of the German Post belonging to the company. You are not as a contractor are distinguishable.
The Swiss parcel market is 1.3 billion Swiss francs, hard. The volume amounts to 171 million units per year. The tendency is rising. The industry employs country-wide 28’000 employees.
The known of the new Case in Geneva, to be brought from the point of view of Unia is the last straw. You want to increase the public communication of the pressure on DHL, so the delivery service would enter into direct negotiations with the Union.
“We call on the Directorate of DHL, to discuss with us how we can the business relations between the Parent company and the partners change.” Umberto Bandiera, Unia-responsible for logistics and Transport in the West of Switzerland
“The business model with subcontractors is opaque and, therefore, prone to abuse,” says Umberto Bandiera, Unia-responsible for logistics and Transport in the West of Switzerland. “We call on the Directorate of DHL, to discuss with us how we can the business relations between the Parent company and the partners change.” The main claims are that DHL accepts the duty of care and that the employees can move from subcontractors to work Overtime.
in this Country, prevails in the lucrative market for parcels a race to the bottom with a high pressure of competition. This forces the subcontractor, faster and more cost-effective to work. This affects the wages and the working environment of the package from the couriers. The minimum wage for a delivery courier is in Geneva between 3800 and 4100 francs.
As a current example of such conditions Unia called the DHL contractors Signal Services with headquarters in Carouge. The member of staff concerned was on 23. April 2019 dismissed without a copy of the termination letter. Curious: Signal Services offered originally, limousine rides.
The courier and was previously employed with another former DHL-Partner in Geneva, the company HAS. It is noteworthy that this is the issue of subcontracting at the Geneva Unia-section on record. This has to do with the holder of HAS to: The business man has two predecessor firms to go bankrupt – presumably, to avoid having to Overtime pay. Of similar cases in the German part of Switzerland, neither Unia nor the trade Union Syndicom knowledge.
All employees of the authority
lost was reported As the “Sunday paper” over the weekend, condemned the Geneva labour court the contractor, a driver 70’000 Swiss francs to pay to repay. The courier worked for one of the two previous bankrupt predecessor companies. DHL in February, the collaboration with HAS, to which all the employees lost the job. Unia is assumed that the former DHL-Partner owes to the redundant drivers wages to the extent of several tens of thousands of francs for Overtime.
DHL granted receivables from Geneva, there is a cancellation. “There are no negotiations with the Unia,” says Michael Jutzi, Director Marketing and business development. The reason for this is The company have been completed with the trade unions Syndicom and Transfair have a collective employment contract. An exchange takes place, therefore, only these two social partners. The working conditions in the parcel delivery services have also caused the Federal authorities to the Plan. The Post-supervision Postcom wakes up since the beginning of the year, new requirements for companies that are not subject to any collective employment agreement.
for example, wage and working time: The current guidelines require a minimum wage of gross 18.27 CHF per hour. The contractually agreed working hours shall not exceed 44 hours per week. So that wage dumping should be in the highly competitive package market prevents. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 08.05.2019, 20:40 PM
