the Last was ver.di-boss Bsirske criticised providers, the conditions of work of Package, is also to the Minister of labour of healing, sees the development in the industry is critical. A new Set should remedy the situation.
Federal Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil, to provide by law for proper working conditions and social standards in the highly competitive parcel industry. “I’m not ready to accept the development in Parts of the package industry for longer,” said the SPD politician, the editorial network in Germany. It is shameful the conditions under which the workers there part would have to work.
subcontractor in focus
With the proposed act should be ensured according to the figures, that the industry’s widely used subcontractors to pay social messenger posts for your package. “So that we can ensure fair competition, social security and better working conditions,” said Heil.
Minister of labour, the healing does not want to accept the “development in Parts of the package industry.”
in Concrete terms, the so-called sub-contractors of liability to be spread to the package sector. This means that the actual Client is for the correct working conditions for all subcontractors responsible. The large delivery services would have to vouch for violations of its subcontractor against the social obligation to take out insurance themselves and pay the premiums.
In the construction industry, where the subcontractor’s liability, applicable since 2002, have you made good experiences with this, stressed healing.
criticism of ver.di
To the conditions in the package business, there is always criticism. Last ver had.di chief Frank Bsirske of “mafia-like structures of spoken. Package service providers, rejected the criticism.
Bsirske criticised, inter alia, that a parcel service company dedicated to instruct, in turn, other companies, which then put people from Ukraine, Moldova or Belarus into the delivery vehicles.
hourly wages of 4.50 euros or 6 euros would be paid in case of working hours of 12 or even 16 hours per day. Even the SPD fraction in the Bundestag had demanded that the subcontractor’s liability to the package industry to expand.
