The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
(55 - 56) Accommodation / Food 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities 56.12 - Mobile food service activities
2,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 July 2025
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2026
Foreseen end date
Description
The food delivery service Lieferando, part of the Dutch group Just Eat Takeaway, will cut around 2,000 driver jobs nationwide from 2026, particularly in Hamburg and smaller markets such as Wiesbaden, Lübeck and Bochum.
The job cuts will begin next year and are part of a strategic realignment in which Lieferando wants to outsource more to subcontractors. Most of the drivers affected are permanent employees. The measure will be implemented through mass redundancies. A social plan is to be negotiated in the near future.
The NGG trade union responded with nationwide warning strikes, including in Hamburg and Frankfurt, and is demanding a collective agreement and an end to outsourcing to third-party providers. The union suspects that many of the dismissed employees will later be contacted by subcontractors offering them contracts with worse conditions.
Lieferando is part of the Dutch parent company Just Eat Takeaway and employs around 6,000 people in Germany. The company is the largest food delivery service in Germany.
Eurofound (2025), Lieferando, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 203106, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203106.
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