Following allegations of assault against a driver directed at Łukasz Mazur, owner of the group, the management of Agmaz Lukmaz Mlogistyka has issued an official statement to the Polish portal Etransport.pl to provide its version of events. According to Agmaz, the Uzbek driver allegedly immobilized the truck in Germany after unilaterally attempting to terminate his employment contract and demanding a compensation of 1,500 euros from the business owner.
Mazur purportedly traveled to Germany to retrieve the truck, only to be confronted with a higher monetary demand of 10,000 euros, advised by labor unions. Upon his refusal, the driver allegedly assaulted Mazur with a knife, injuring his hand and forcing him to resort to pepper spray in self-defense.
In their statement, Agmaz also criticized the German government and labor unions, accusing them of attempting to undermine the entire Polish transportation sector to favor domestic enterprises and initiate legislative reforms facilitating the hiring of non-EU drivers by German companies. The company alleges that recent protests in Grafenhausen were incited by unions to discredit Polish businesses and encourage driver migration from Poland to Germany. The letter suggests that a major German company expressed interest in hiring one hundred Agmaz drivers, if legally feasible.
It is worth noting that in Poland, many drivers work through transport mandates tied to individual trips rather than through formal employment contracts, as stated in the letter. Hence, unilaterally terminating a contract, as claimed in the letter, could entail the failure to fulfill a entrusted transport.
Marco Martinelli
