Direct employment now for courier work

Platforms such as Lieferando, Wolt, and Uber Eats must stop outsourcing responsibility through opaque subcontractor chains. The companies that organise the work should directly employ the workers, guarantee wages, and carry responsibility for working conditions.

Carried by the Lieferando Workers Collective. Public basis: hearings, parliamentary records, investigative reporting, and documented cases from the delivery sector.

Why this campaign is making public pressure now

• Platforms control courier work while shifting legal responsibility onto subcontractors and shell companies.
• Workers report unpaid wages, missing social protection, intimidation, and employer structures that are often impossible to identify.
• We demand a clear political rule: the core delivery work of platforms must not be organised through subcontractors.

What is being demanded

• Direct employment instead of subcontracting chains.
• Clear liability for wages, health and safety, data protection, and food safety.
• Political rules that effectively end bogus subcontracting in platform delivery work.

Evidence and public verification

• The campaign is grounded in public hearings, parliamentary records, investigative reporting, and the experience of organised couriers.
• The RBB / Tagesschau investigation from 2 December 2025 documents major abuses in the subcontracting system.
• The Evidence page groups the main claims with named sources.

Who is speaking

This campaign is carried by the Lieferando Workers Collective: a self-organised courier structure that speaks from direct experience. More on who the collective is and why it is credible is on About LWC.

For press, public readers, and supporters

If a visitor is not ready to sign immediately, they should still be able to verify the argument quickly. If a journalist lands here, they should find a visible route to background and contact. That is why the next steps lead clearly to Evidence, About LWC, and Press.