Laconsegna delivers on national agreement


Laconsegna, a fast food delivery company in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, has agreed that it will apply the national agreement for the logistics sector to its workers.


The company, whose workers deliver food by bicycle and scooter on the basis of orders received via their smart phones — similar to Deliveroo in the UK — signed the deal with the transport unions of the three main Italian union confederations on 8 May.


This is the first agreement of this sort signed in Italy, and it guarantees that workers will receive the agreed hourly rate, rather than being paid according to deliveries made. Laconsegna’s employees will also benefit from the other conditions, like holidays and sick pay, included in the national agreement. The company’s workers have already set up an employee representative body.


Laconsegna is currently small, with just 20 delivery workers, but it plans to increase its workforce to 200 in the next few weeks. 


The unions hope that the agreement, which took several months to negotiate, will be seen as a model for other companies in the sector. 


In a joint statement, FILT-CGIL, FIT-CISL and UILTransporti said: “Now we need to move forward with the extension of this agreement from this first company to all the companies in the sector in Florence and Tuscany.”