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Careship ( Germany )

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Principle 1: Fair Pay

Ensures workers earn at least the local minimum wage after costs (one point)

Ensures workers earn at least a local living wage after costs (one additional point)
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Principle 2: Fair Conditions

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Mitigates task-specific risks (one point)

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Provides a safety net (one additional point)

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Principle 3: Fair Contracts

Provides clear and transparent terms and conditions (one point)

Ensures that no unfair contract terms are imposed (one additional point)
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Principle 4: Fair Management

Provides due process for decisions affecting workers (one point)
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Provides equity in the management process (one additional point)

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Principle 5: Fair Representation

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Assures freedom of association and the expression of collective worker voice (one point)

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Supports democratic governance (one additional point)

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Notes

The Fairwork Scoring System entails that each Fairwork Principle is divided into two thresholds. Accordingly, for each Principle, the scoring system allows a first point to be awarded corresponding to the first threshold, and an additional second point to be awarded corresponding to the second threshold. The second point under each Principle can only be awarded if the first point for that Principle has been awarded.

An explanation of how we assess platforms against these principles and the information and evidence that we gather and analyse when we make our assessment can be found here.

The above scores should be read in conjunction with these explanatory notes.

Platforms are awarded a point where there is verifiable evidence to demonstrate that the platform has achieved the relevant threshold. A blank score therefore means that there was no verifiable evidence to award a point.

A platform can therefore receive a maximum Fairwork Score of ten points.

Fairwork scores are updated on a yearly basis.

An explanation of the conditions that need to be met for a threshold to be achieved can be found here.


1.1

Provides an hourly wage that exceeds the minimum hourly wage of 9.60 Euros (valid July-Dec 2021), after costs associated with work.
1.2

Provides an hourly wage of 17.50 Euros/hour which is on par with a living wage threshold calculated based on the private consumption expenditure rates proposed by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (which is 14.50 Euros/hour.)
3.1

3.1 Terms and conditions are clear, transparent and accessible to workers, and subject to the German law.
3.2

Terms and conditions are free of clauses which unreasonably exclude liability on the part of the platform.
4.1

There is a human representative to address queries by workers, and a documented process through which workers can appeal decisions affecting them, without being disadvantaged.