The bike meal delivery company Just Eat, which had marked its difference by recruiting salaried deliverers at the start of 2021 when the other platforms resort to self-employed entrepreneurs, announced on Monday July 18 its intention to stop its service. operated by its own staff in twenty-six cities out of the twenty-seven where it is established, according to the two unions present in the company, Force Ouvrière (FO) and the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
This amplification of the plan it had presented in April – it then intended to restructure in twenty cities – was presented at an extraordinary meeting of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE). The company would therefore no longer be present with its employees except in Paris, where currently only “Two hundred and twenty deliverers, compared to eight hundred in 2021”, deplores Jérémy Graça, FO delegate. The management specifies that Just Eat “do not withdraw” of these towns but is reorganizing and seeking “an alternative solution with an external partner”. It will probably be a platform using self-employed delivery people.
The commercial part also affected
The draft employment protection plan (PSE), which was under negotiation, is becoming heavier as a result. It provides for the elimination of 350 delivery positions employees, 40 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in the support functions of the logistics activity and 50 at the head office, according to management. In April, 279 jobs were targeted, according to the unions for which the other subsidiary, Eat on Line, which provides the commercial part, would also be affected. Management justifies these announcements “due to difficult market dynamics in France and [son] ambition to achieve sustainable growth”.
In CSE, management would have “says the numbers are bad everywhere, including in Parissays Mr. Graça. We wonder if it will not close there too. » The management would also have considered “that it costs too much to pay the delivery men, adds Ludovic Rioux, CGT delegate. But the deliverers are only there to deliver, not to bring in money, which is the role of the sales subsidiary. » The management, which claims to remain “attached to this salaried model in France and in Europe”specifies that this is “very difficult to exploit when there is not a level playing field for all operators”. And Just Eat to plead for “clear legislation and support from public authorities to create an environment where both delivery person and company benefit from the salaried model”.
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