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An employment contract with
Lieferando is a prized asset

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among international students
in, in Berlin today.

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Lieferando deploys 
the practice

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of keeping the majority of its workforce

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permanently 
on probation time.

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Under German law
you're all familiar that

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when you're within 
your probation time

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you do not acquire most of 
your rights under labor law.

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When you are 
in probation time.

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If you look at the hiring and 
firing practices in Lieferando,

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you will see

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that the vast majority 
of its workers are fired

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within five months 
and 25 days.

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Within five months and 25 days,
they are fired

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and they hire somebody else.

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They do not let anyone cross.

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Very few people
cross over six months, right?

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Which is when you start to acquire
your rights under labor law in Germany.

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This is the best employer in
the sector I'm talking about.

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there is consistent under-
counting of working hours.

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Consistent undercounting 
of working hours.

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There are delivery workers
who live in Spandau,

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make their last order 
in Friedrichshain.

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And then they have to make the
one hour journey back to their homes.

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That one hour is not counted.

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Never.

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If you were to include 
that one hour,

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if you were to include that 
one hour, it is very likely

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that they are being paid
below minimum wage.

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If you calculate the total amount,
they are being paid.

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And if you were to make an honest 
accounting of working time,

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you will see that even Lieferando,
the best employer in the sector

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is paying below 
minimum wage.

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Third:

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The tools of work.

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What are the tools of work 
as a delivery worker?

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Bicycle. Mobile phone. 
Right?

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Lieferando has consistently 
resisted paying for these.

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Consistently resisted for 
years and years and years.

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Workers like Samuel 
have had to fight

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just for Lieferando
to accept

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that these are
tools of work,

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and that the employers
should be paying for this.