Picnic is going to apply a collective labour agreement for employees in its distribution centres after all. The app only supermarket will not use the standard supermarket collective labour agreement for that, but will develop its own collective labour agreement for the online sector.
The e-commerce collective labour agreement is intended for staff at online retailers and should better reflect the current times, Picnic claims. The company also promises distribution workers a pay rise, which is separate from the upcoming collective labour agreement.
FNV puts pressure on Picnic
The news comes a day after FNV issued a summons. The union demands that Picnic adhere to the supermarket collective agreement. "Picnic knows it is a supermarket and carries this out," reads the union's statement. "But this company refuses to pay the wages to which employees are entitled. Picnic puts the bill for 'free' delivery on the workers. Moreover, this malpractice creates unfair competition with other supermarkets."
'E-commerce CBA is important for the sector'
Picnic is partially meeting that requirement by introducing a collective labour agreement, although it refuses to embrace the supermarket collective labour agreement. "The supermarket collective labour agreement is made for shops, and we don't have one," founder Michiel Muller said in conversation with NU.nl. "Having our own collective labour agreement is important for the sector, which is growing enormously." Earlier, Muller revealed that he thinks the supermarket collective agreement is not of this time. "Those agreements are 50 years old. Then a student who works on Sundays can be paid double and a stay-at-home mother who can only work during the week cannot."
Retail CBA serves as basis
INretail's retail CBA will serve as the basis for the new CBA. Muller hopes that other e-commerce companies will join the CBA.
