Ruling on December 3, 2019
Authority: Court of Amsterdam
Parties: Picnic
Subject: Only the 'main' Picnic company that sells food and non-food articles falls under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry.
Summary of facts: Picnic is an online supermarket. Each company that falls under Picnic has a different activity. The is for example a Picnic Fulfilment, which packs the goods, a Picnic Technologies, which is in charge of the development of software and a Picnic services, which focusses on marketing. FNV finds that all these different companies fall under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry.
Legal question: Do all of the Picnic companies fall under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry?
Considerations: The collective labour agreement for the food industry does not specify that the whole enterprise falls under it's scope. The collective labour agreement for the food industry isn't that broad. Only the 'main' Picnic company that sells food and non-food articles falls under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry. The other companies such as Picnic Technologies and Picnic Fulfilment do not fall under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry.
Ruling: Only the 'main' Picnic company that sells food and non-food articles falls under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry. The other companies such as Picnic Technologies and Picnic Fulfilment do not fall under the scope of the collective labour agreement for the food industry.