Today in the center of Athens there is a mass “motorcycle race” of hundreds of efood employees. Couriers on red mopeds, dressed in company colors, made several circles in the center of the capital, to the sound of horns and the approving whistle of passers-by.
The Documento edition, which is considered pro-Syrize (Siriz’s party), distributed informationthat the Efood company is related to the wife of Greek Prime Minister Kiryakos Mitsotakis – Mereva Grabovskaya, through her partner Kostas Kirkinis, and taxes from this business are laundered offshore.
According to the publication, the name of K. Kirkinis appears in the offshore documents, 50% owned by Mareva Grabowski, as follows from the publication of the Paradise Papers. The same person appears in two other business projects related to the wife of the prime minister. The authors of Documento believe that he is a “cover” for Mareva Grabowski, and for this reason she, they say, may be related to the Efood company.
Online Delivery Sole Proprietorship SA or Efood is an anonymous society founded in 2014. According to reports, it is “the brainchild of the brothers Kirkini, Paminos and Konstantinos, as well as three other businessmen, including the Apostle Apostolakis.” In 2015, the company was acquired by German Delivery Hero. Although Efood was sold, the Kirkini brothers remain on the company’s board of directors to this day. In particular, as follows from the official GEMI data, Konstantinos-Petros Kirkinis and Nikolaos-Epamindas Kirkinis appear as managing directors of the company, whose terms of office expire in January 2022.
The publication has already had several lost court cases with the Prime Minister’s wife, but continues to publish provocative materials as before.
Chronicle of events
Company solution Efood Emailing 115 of their couriers an email informing them that their work relationship is changing to freelancing has sparked a wave of backlash on social media.
The reason for the demonstration was letter 115 to company couriers with the obligation to switch to freelance mode. After a violent reaction, efood released a new ad, which, however, did not satisfy the food distributors.
“Recent developments, especially in the distribution sector, call for a strike to inform the government and employers that we are not numbers, but people,” the POEET union said in a statement.
The police surrounded and accompanied the protesters, but this time there was no violence.
The Documento edition, which is considered pro-Syrize (Siriz’s party), distributed informationthat the Efood company is related to the wife of Greek Prime Minister Kiryakos Mitsotakis – Mereva Grabovskaya, through her partner Kostas Kirkinis, and taxes from this business are laundered offshore.
According to the publication, the name of K. Kirkinis appears in the offshore documents, 50% owned by Mareva Grabowski, as follows from the publication of the Paradise Papers. The same person appears in two other business projects related to the wife of the prime minister. The authors of Documento believe that he is a “cover” for Mareva Grabowski, and for this reason she, they say, may be related to the Efood company.
Online Delivery Sole Proprietorship SA or Efood is an anonymous society founded in 2014. According to reports, it is “the brainchild of the brothers Kirkini, Paminos and Konstantinos, as well as three other businessmen, including the Apostle Apostolakis.” In 2015, the company was acquired by German Delivery Hero. Although Efood was sold, the Kirkini brothers remain on the company’s board of directors to this day. In particular, as follows from the official GEMI data, Konstantinos-Petros Kirkinis and Nikolaos-Epamindas Kirkinis appear as managing directors of the company, whose terms of office expire in January 2022.
The publication has already had several lost court cases with the Prime Minister’s wife, but continues to publish provocative materials as before.
Chronicle of events
Company solution Efood Emailing 115 of their couriers an email informing them that their work relationship is changing to freelancing has sparked a wave of backlash on social media.
In an email to the delivery staff, the company informed low-rated workers that they would either become freelancers or lose their jobs. The company justified its decision “in the context of increasing the productivity of the vehicle fleet [компании] and its broader strategy. “
Couriers responded by posting it on social networks, after which the information went viral. The company’s customer community took the letter as blackmail and sparked a huge wave of solidarity with the couriers.
Using hashtags #cancel_efood, thousands of Greeks reportedthat they have removed the Efood app from their devices and will no longer use the service, in protest against the company’s approach to labor rights.
A union representing workers in hotels, tourism and catering accused the company of “blackmail”:
“The information that many of the courier colleagues from the company had that they were not renewing their contract and were switching to a“ cooperative ”model meant layoffs. This is a tool that allows you to get rid of the labor and insurance rights of couriers at any convenient time. Such a tool is the assessment of work, where, with the so-called performance criteria, the intensification of work, long reception and delivery distances have increased. “
The union accuses the company of “blackmailing low-rated couriers in the face of a dilemma: unemployed or partner. By partner is meant the implementation of the new state law on the profile of the freelancer, which provides for a six-month fixed-term contract that exempts the company from insurance premiums, Christmas and Easter gifts when paid in installments. “
In an email to the delivery staff, the company informed low-rated workers that they would either become freelancers or lose their jobs. The company justified its decision “in the context of increasing the productivity of the vehicle fleet [компании] and its broader strategy. “
Couriers responded by posting it on social networks, after which the information went viral. The company’s customer community took this letter as blackmail and sparked a huge wave of solidarity with the couriers.
Using hashtags #cancel_efood, thousands of Greeks reportedthat they have removed the Efood app from their devices and will no longer use the service, in protest against the company’s approach to labor rights.
A union representing workers in hotels, tourism and catering accused the company of “blackmail”:
“The information that many of the courier colleagues from the company had that they were not renewing their contract and were switching to a“ cooperative ”model meant layoffs. This is a tool that allows you to get rid of the labor and insurance rights of couriers at any convenient time. Such a tool is the assessment of work, where, with the so-called performance criteria, the intensification of work, long reception and delivery distances have increased. “
The union accuses the company of “blackmailing low-rated couriers in the face of a dilemma: unemployed or partner. By partner is meant the implementation of the new state law on the profile of the freelancer, which provides for a six-month fixed-term contract that exempts the company from insurance premiums, Christmas and Easter gifts when paid in installments. “
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