A hundred delivery men who work for food delivery companies demonstrated Saturday on bicycles and scooters in Paris to demand better working conditions, the regularization of undocumented workers and the recognition of wage earners.
His situation, like that of many others around him, is denounced by a pamphlet from the National Confederation of Workers – Solidarity of Workers (CNT-SO) distributed shortly before the start of the demonstration, Place de la République, with this motto : “Stop digital exploitation”.
The most precarious situation among delivery people is that of undocumented workers, forced to rent open accounts with another identity.
60,000 active couriers in France
These are left at the mercy of a sudden disconnection of the platforms. Thus, in early September, Uber Eats announced that it had disconnected 2,500 accounts identified as fraudulent among its 60,000 active delivery people in France.
Recognition of the salaried status of these workers, demanded among others by the CNT-SO, “would affect their possibility of regularizing themselves in France,” Etienne Deschamps, one of their representatives, explains to AFP.
Meanwhile, Mr. Deschamps asks the public authorities to authorize the prefectures to accept regularization files by presenting invoices and not payroll, not having the delivery men, under the status of independent.
The Sud Commerces, CNT-SO and Clap unions had already challenged the Government on September 19 to facilitate administrative regularization, framed in a circular called “Circulaire Valls” dating from 2012.
A demonstration on the same issue was also held on September 12, from the Place de la République to the French headquarters of the American firm Uber Eats.
Source: BFM TV
