Since the Court of Cassation acknowledged the first employment contract between a VTC driver [transport vehicle with driver] and Uber on March 4, 2020, the subject of social dialogue often returns to the communication strategy of the -digital form, hitherto little open to the debate.
The participation of some of its leaders in conference-debates alongside representatives of drivers and delivery people, political actors and researchers, and even cooperative platforms (alternatives to capital platforms), shows To what extent the resistance of “ubérized” workers, legal attempts at regulation and media criticisms were able to overthrow the balance of power.
maintain the status of independent
The first elections of representatives of platform workers were held from May 9 to 16 under the aegis of the authority of social relations of employment platforms ( arpe ). However, the very low participation rate (1.83 % for deliverers, and 3.91 % for drivers) highlights the difficulty of establishing a negotiation process between two parties whose communication has always been non -existent.
uber and other platforms place great hopes in this social dialogue system. The multiplication of convictions against these companies for concealed work, illegal practice, unfair competition and disguised wage earnings is likely to kill their economic model.
The objective of social dialogue is therefore to Uber to maintain the status of freelance for his workers, a point that Elisabeth Borne, when she was Minister of Labor, had already admitted to ahead on May 9 in a communiqué de presse : ” Avec l’organisation de ces élections, notre ambition est claire : que le dialogue se développe entre workers’ representatives and those of platforms, to enable them to benefit from new rights and exercise their activity in better conditions, while respecting the status of indeed ndant to which most of them are attached. “
In return, Uber could agree with workers and authorities on more transparency on the use of algorithms and the inclusion of elected representatives in some of its organizational decisions, as suggested by the European Directive Project The protection of platform workers, whose content should also be decided to the European Parliament and the Council of European Labor Ministers in December.
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