Social tension reigns at the Italian subsidiary of German-based online restaurant-prepared food delivery company Foodora. A group of bicycle couriers has undertaken a series of protests against the Italian subsidiary’s management decision to move from an hourly pay system to a pay-per-delivery system. This marks one of the country’s first ‘uberisation-based’ disputes and the public authorities are paying particular attention to it.
Foodora has been active in Italy for a little over a year. It uses almost seven hundred delivery people in Milan and Turin based on Co.Co.Co. contracts (continuous collaboration contracts that are a type of employment contract situated mid-way between salaried employee and freelance independent). This dispute was triggered at the start of October when management decided to move from paying €5.60 an hour to paying per delivery, initially at a rate of €3.00 gross, then following protest this rate was raised to €4.00 gross (€3.60 net).
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