Durstexpress: employment agency obtains a ban on dismissal
No time right now?
The planned merger of the beverage suppliers Durstexpress and Bottle Post is stalling. The employment agencies are fighting against the flood of redundancies.
The online market for the beverage delivery business is booming during the corona crisis. Companies such as Durstexpress and Bottle Mail have also benefited from this. The two beverage suppliers were competing for the same clientele, and message in a bottle ultimately won. The delivery service has the edge and bought the subsidiary of Dr. Oetker recently – allegedly for the record sum of one billion euros.
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Merger to blame for mass termination
As a result of the merger of the shops, which in future will only run under the name of Bottle Post, some Durstexpress locations will be closed. This led to hundreds of layoffs, which the employment agencies are now resisting.
A clause is anchored in the Dismissal Protection Act which obliges companies to report such a mass layoff to the employment agency. The authority then has the option to object to the project in individual cases or at least to obtain a temporary postponement.
Both the employment agency in Berlin and the authority in Leipzig have now made use of this delay. The reports Gründerszene and relies on its own information.
The termination is followed by a new application
With the postponement time is gained for the employees; However, the terminations were still valid and would only take effect at a later date, a message in a bottle spokesman confirmed. For the former Durstexpress employees, however, message in a bottle leaves the doors open. The company wants to continue to employ as many of the affected Durstexpress employees as possible. The bottom line is that there should be no significant downsizing. The terminated employees will be offered to apply again directly, said the spokesman for Gründerszene.
