In the Paris Correctional Court, which judges the delivery company for “concealed labor”, Adrien Falcon and Hugues Decosse denied the existence of a “subordination link” between the platform and the deliverymen.
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Every day, in the large agglomerations, norias of bicycle delivery or slaloment scooter between cars, accommodate the color of the fires, narrowly avoid pedestrians, and improvise their own road code. Facing the Criminal Court of Paris, two former leaders of Deliveroo have shown the same dexterity, Monday, March 14, during their interrogation. Zigzag between the formulas, bypassing obstacles and dodging on the work code that it is reproached for not having respected.
What Deliveroo is the name? Is it only, as she says, a “connecting platform” between customers, restaurators and independent deliverymen or, as the Prosecution supports, a meal delivery service company maintains a “link of subordination “with couriers to which it appeals? From the answer to this question depends on the assessment of the offense of “concealed labor” which is worth to his former leaders and the company itself, as a legal person, to appear before the judges.
Adrien Falcon, 42, was number 1 in France from Delivero from 2015 to 2016. His mission, explains, was to “duplicate to the identical” and “deploy” in France the model born Two years earlier in the UK. Of society, it proposes this definition: “a technological platform, with three hyperconnected interactions that self-embraced most often.” “It does not move, blow the president, Sylvie Daunan. How do you explain this name, Deliveroo? A priori, it has just been “delivered” in English … “” I did not ask myself the question. It’s a mark “, Eludes the accused. His argument is perfectly roded. The platform manages “complex flows” whose operation is based on “flexibility and freedom”, two vital reasons to “use independents.”
“No monitoring”
The Chairperson took up one by one the elements of the investigation which, according to the conclusions of the labor inspectorate taken by the Prosecution, score this assertive of the independence of the couriers, establishing a “link of subordination.” The existence of training organized by society? “It was information meetings”, Nuance Adrien Falcon. The use of software to manage the working time of deliverymen? “Not at all. It’s a tool that allowed them to choose their shifts. There is total freedom to decide when prest, where to preserve and refuse the order.” The instructions to wear the Deliveroo holding under penalty of sanctions, Reported by the complainants? “It was only a proposal to give visibility to the mark. And a safety element because the jackets and bags are equipped with reflective tapes.”
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