UGT has denounced before the Labor Inspection the “continuous breaches” of the labor rights of the company Euskalherria VTC with the staff.
Company staff Euskalherria VTC, which manages the platform service Uber in Bizkaia and hires drivers, they have announced a week of strike a starting next day 10, before him “non-payment” of payroll and “indiscriminate dismissals”, as reported by the UGT union.
“The company owes the monthly payments since August, it does not pay the severance payments to the workers it dismisses and also acts in a rude way, appropriating the tips that customers pay drivers through the application,” UGT denounced in a statement.
On behalf of the workers, this trade union center has denounced to the Labor Inspectorate the “continuous breaches” of the labor rights of this company with its workers.
In addition, it demands that Euskalherria VTC apply the collective agreement for Regular and Discretionary Passenger Transport by road of Bizkaia, which is the one that corresponds and implies a salary difference of 1,230 gross euros per month of salary difference.
UGT has assured that it has presented “numerous demands” before the Social Court of Bilbao for claims in rights and amounts, requesting the correct application of the agreement.
This car rental company with driver, according to UGT, “also fails to pay overtime, the correct maintenance of the vehicles, with documentation that is not in order and endangers the safety of these drivers.”
Faced with this “tremendous breach of minimum labor standards,” the workers have decided in an assembly to call a seven-day strike, from Wednesday, November 10, until the 16th.
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