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Several hundred undocumented delivery workers are demanding the right to work after being disconnected from the Uber Eats app this summer. Every week, they mobilize in the street and with the authorities. Today, they want a regularization to be able to work in all legality.
Loudspeaker in front of a building in the XIII arrondissement of Paris. The deliverers want to invite themselves to a meeting of Arpe, the social relations authority for the platforms. A government body created a few months ago, intendedto improve working conditions » delivery people and all other platform workers like Uber or Deliveroo.
« I have been offline since July 17th and till date have not worked yet. It’s impossible for me to work now. I have difficulty making ends meet because I don’t work “says Abu.
Amend the Valls circular
He is undocumented and finds himself in an inextricable situation. He can no longer work for lack of papers and he cannot ask for papers for lack of proof that he has worked well. “We, instead of payslips, we are given invoices. And we would like the invoices to be considered as a payslip. It can be favorable to us in the regularization“, he continues.
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These deliverers are asking for a rewrite of the Valls circular which allows an undocumented worker to see his situation regularized, if he meets certain criteria. For Jérôme Pimot, founder of Clap, the collective of independent Parisian delivery men, review “the Valls circular is not even a law to be passed, to be passed again, via parliamentary shuttle games that lasted for months. It’s just a writing game. It is still in force, so that means that the current government has not repealed it. »
He pursues : “From there, there are just a few words to change, a few lines. It’s just a political will, that’s why these delivery men want to raise awareness among customers, restaurants, citizens, but also politicians because it is he, ultimately, who will sign», explains Jérôme Pimot.
« We want to be regularized, to work legally »
« During the Covid, we were delivered to infected buildings, from the ground floor to the [dernier étage]. We took the risk of going up in these buildings, going to deliver sick people. In return, we should at least get something“says Abu. “On does not want taxpayers’ money, France, no. We want to be regularized, to work legally. By the sweat of our brow to feed our family“, he insists.
In front of the Arpe building, the action of the delivery men seems to be bearing fruit. A delegation is finally received. Claims will be forwarded to the Ministry of Labour. The lines are moving, say the delivery men. Further meetings are scheduled for November.