According to the investigators, the company is falsely as a delivery platform, and used as independent deliverers who should have been salaried.
Le Monde
A first in criminal law opens in France, Tuesday, March 7 at 1:30 pm, before the Paris Correctional Court. Deliveroo and three of his former leaders will be tried for users who should have been salaried.
This trial of the “uberization” system must establish whether there is a “bond of subordination” between Deliveroo France and more than 2,000 deliverers who had “no freedom” in their organization. The gendarmes of the Central Office for the Fight against Illegal Work have looked at facts about the period 2015-2017.
According to them, the company is falsely as a platform for “connecting” between customers, restaurants and deliverymen, while the delivery of meals at home or work is “the object even” of its activity . In its contracts, Deliveroo explains to subcontracting, failing “internally” of staff to the required “technical” and “special know-how” necessary for cycling.
“Very relative” expertise, has judged the Prosecution, which highlights a series of “bonds” (port of the uniform, awarded niches, attitude to adopt before the customer or the restaurateur) imposed on deliverymen On pain of “reprimand”, proving in his eyes that Deliveroo is the “boss”.
A hybrid status granted in Great Britain
“Deliveroo works with independent deliverymen, because it conforms to the way they tell us that they like to exercise their activity. This gives them flexibility that they could not benefit in an employee relationship,” assured The company with the France-Press agency (AFP).
“Today is the trial of Deliveroo, but it is mainly an alert to all companies working on the same principle and abuse independent status,” warned M E Kevin Mention, lawyer of 70 deliveries already civil parties in this file. Other deliveries should join them, and many of them will testify before the Tribunal. The trial is scheduled until March 16th.
In highly disputed, the status of independent of Uber drivers or Deliveroo couriers is questioned in many countries by justice or, more rarely, by laws that have pushed some giants from the sector to propose compromise.
In Great Britain, the US Giant Uber, aimed by a concealed work investigation in France, has granted its 70,000 drivers a hybrid status of “salaried workers” which gives them minimum wage, paid leave and access to a Pension fund, a world first for American society.
