The meal delivery platform is condemned for concealed work. A first in France.
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It’s a first. Deliveroo has just been sentenced for concealed work. The Paris court considers that between 2015 and 2017, the meal delivery platform used a “fictitious legal dressing”: self-employed workers only had the name; they should have been considered as employees. Eco guest of franceinfo Tuesday April 19, Gurvan Kristanadjaja, journalist at Liberation and author of the book Uberization, bullshit trap (Robert Laffont), believes that “the model” from Deliveroo is “offensive“.
“It’s an extremely symbolic decision,” he said: “This is the first time that a platform from the Uber era has been sentenced to criminal proceedings (…) There must be a debate. This model is questioned. Do we want to continue like this?”
The platform challenges his conviction and plans to appeal. Has it changed since 2017? “What is fascinating with uberisation companies is that they have a phenomenal capacity to adapt. Each time they have a constraint, and since they are subject to enormous competition, they will adapt. And so, obviously, Deliveroo changed its rules so that it could no longer be sued on these facts.“replies the journalist, without excluding other legal actions on more recent facts.
The question is also that of the economic model. Does this allow employment? “Yes“, according to Gurvan Kristanadjaja, “but it is the unbridled growth of companies that does not allow it” : “TO the basis, these companies are not profitable“.
Find the full interview here: