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Couriers refuse deliveries from eatery that ‘owes staff thousands’
Deliveroo riders from the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB)

By Derek Kotz
Industrial reporter

DELIVEROO couriers organised by the IWGB union are refusing to deliver food from a south London restaurant embroiled in a dispute over unpaid wages and alleged breaches of Covid-19 restricitons.

Staff at Bala Baya in Lambeth say they are owed tens of thousands of pounds in overtime and holiday pay and have issued employment tribunal proceedings with the help of their own union, the IWW.

The IWW also alleges serious breaches of Covid regulations, including people being forced to work while on furlough and that staff were threatened with the sack if they spoke out.

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