yesterday the staff of the courier services of this popular company have announced that they will refuse to deliver orders as they are already more than two months have not been paid. And this is according to Russian law a criminal offense.
According to their assurances defiantly refuse to obey orders about 300 couriers. No salaries couriers were in distress, what publicly declared their Union. And added that some employees have lost their rented accommodation, sleeps in the parks of Moscow and the doorways of houses. They have no money for food, they have nothing to feed their children.
the Union on behalf of the couriers made the requirements of the company. Declared immediately due and payable debts, the abolition of fines and reinstatement of the dismissed couriers. After the information appeared about the fact that wage arrears will be repaid until 6 July. But the beginning of the preliminary investigation said that this has not happened.
the preliminary examination the Investigative Committee last month and will give the answer to the main question – whether there are grounds for initiating a criminal case.
In recent years, said the correspondent “RG” in the UK such cases payments to the citizens earned a lot of money and they have successfully investigated. I must say that the courts also began to strictly punish for non-payment, giving a very real deadlines.
In April and may the demand for grocery stores and prepared food from restaurants has increased almost 10 times in the background of isolation, and one of the most in demand in the labour market have become couriers, follows from the data of Rosstat. In June, the press-service delivery service Delivery Club announced an unprecedented number of may orders to 5.5 million per month.
As an aggregator of delivery Delivery Club receives a Commission from restaurants, given that Delivery Club and “Yandex.Food” accounts for about a third of all restaurants in Moscow and the Moscow region, another third in St. Petersburg and the remaining third in major cities, reported “RG” associate Professor of the Department of economic statistics of REU named after G. V. Plekhanov Olga Lebedinskaya. Terms aggregators quite hard for brick and mortar restaurants and a gift can be up to 37% of the order value. To known and dear establishments Commission on average is 25%.
following the results of the record sales part of the couriers Delivery Club two months could not receive a salary. But on July 9, after joined the case to the Investigative Committee, the company said that most couriers salaries still paid. In total, for two months it could not get 326 people. It turned out, they were all employed at contractor logistics company “of Amaroli” that the money from the customer, but to pay people’s salaries were not paid. “In this situation we have also been the injured party from a dishonest contractor, paying dvazhdy, but now our main task – to help the couriers. To solve the problem of the couriers Delivery Club re-transferred to the contractor funds for repayment of debts”, – said the representative of the company.
Do couriers report that they deliver food and products from the company Delivery Club, which did not recognize their own workers, because technically the lease has entered into intermediary firms. But they were not officially arranged in the state, and was listed in the civil contract that does not provide social guarantees. That is, working with no vacation, sick leave and severance.
For the protection of workers ‘ rights made by private Profsoyuznaya organizaciya profsoyuz “Courier”. It is not a part of the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia (FNPR), and its activity is carried out through the social network “Vkontakte”. Neither her phone number nor address on the page in a social network are not specified. Thus in FNPR noted that to them for support couriers not addressed, but willing to help if they are asked.
Delivery Club announced that terminates relationship with “Amaroli” and expresses the indignation of his unprofessional and irresponsible behavior. “In this regard, we completely change the system of control of contractors, implementing of new product and operational tools to check the timeliness of payments, and also additional criteria for the selection of logistics companies. We have always sought to work only with reliable contractors, but, as shown by the current situation, it was not enough,” – noted in Delivery Club.
According to chamber of Commerce, the number of couriers employed in the field of online food delivery of restaurants – more than 3 thousand people. The annual market volume is estimated at 23-30 billion. At Delivery Club accounts for approximately 20-25% of the market.
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