2023-06-12 17:37:03
Out of 100,000 workers affiliated with Uber in France, 800 of them have initiated proceedings against the platform. Mateusz Szymanski/MOZCO – stock.adobe.com
The group is developing a strategy to try to ease the legal pressure.
This is the catastrophic scenario against which Uber is fighting with all its might in France as elsewhere. What if its VTC drivers and delivery people were no longer independent? If they were granted the status of employees with the rights that go with it (minimum wage, paid holidays, severance pay, etc.)? A disaster, because it would considerably increase its costs. In California, where platform workers were almost deemed salaried three years ago, it would have caused Uber $500 million in additional spending.
An unbearable overload while with its current economic model based on independent drivers and deliverers, the group is already unable to be profitable. Moreover, in France, the experience of JustEat, which chose to recruit salaried deliverers, was not conclusive. After hiring 4,500 in 2021, the platform laid off the majority. “Our cost structure with an employee model…
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