Anyone who collects, packs and drives around groceries for online supermarket Picnic is also entitled to allowances for working in the evenings and on Sundays, just like other employees who are covered by the collective agreement for supermarkets. The court in Utrecht ruled this in the case that Picnic, together with flash delivery companies Getir and Gorillas, had brought against trade unions FNV and CNV and employers’ organization Vakcentrum. The court says that both Picnic and the flash delivery companies are simply shops and fall under the scope of the supermarket collective agreement. Picnic and the other companies had summoned the trade unions and the employers' association to be exempted from the provisions of the supermarket collective agreement.
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