Helsinki-based delivery service Wolt will cut 30 jobs from its global corporate workforce, three of them in Finland, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday.
Wolt, which was bought by the US delivery company DoorDash in 2022, noted that negotiations with employee representatives had ended.
Wolt announced its job cut plans and the initiation of employee talks at the beginning of last month.
Founded in Helsinki in 2014, Wolt has around 11,000 employees across 27 countries, including 1,300 workers in Finland.
The company won a landmark legal case in February, when the administrative court of Hämeenlinna ruled that its couriers were entrepreneurs, not employees.
At the time, service sector union PAM, which considers Wolt couriers among its members, said the court's ruling was the latest episode in a "to-ing and fro-ing" over the status of couriers. The legally defined role of food couriers and other gig workers is a topic of discussion in many countries.
Last week, Wolt's main competitor in Finland, Foodora, announced that it was shutting down its online grocery stores which operate in seven cities in the Nordic country.
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