Take Eat Easy, Uber …: the “dream” of precarious workers ubérisation – L’Express

On July 26, TEE was placed in receivership, the first victim of the fierce competition of a boom industry.

“ The horses begin to ask questions about the viability of the system “, told AFP Matthew Dumas, 22, a former employee of the start-up, the head of the first workers’ collective “ ubérisés ” in France.

This group was born in late July a “ awareness ” and “ after an email TEE telling its suppliers that bonuses for weekend worked and the minimum rate guaranteed time slot were removed, which did pass my monthly income from 1,800 to 1,200 euros , “he adds.

Matthew no longer believes in “ model Uber ” American mastodon online platforms of VTC which “ capitalize on the misery ” by allowing students, young professionals unemployed or unemployed at the end of rights to find paid work, for which the companies pay no payroll tax.

“ These boxes sell us this status as the Holy Grail without talk about the disadvantages. Many people are happy to find a job with a potential of 4,000 euros a month and flexible hours. Some lose all because they do not know their obligations “laments Matthew Dumas.

These couriers, drivers Uber or carers of the collaborative economy, must participate auto-entrepreneur status.

They would be “ 80,000 working somewhat or entirely to a digital platform in a million self-entrepreneurs in France ,” according to Gregory Leclercq, head of the observatory the ubérisation created in 2015.

– Notation, punishment –

But their remuneration and the opportunity to enroll in the schedules often depend on a “ opaque notation .” They are subject to the “ strike ” (punishments) in the absence or when they unsubscribe temporarily. A week off and counters are “ reset “, with social protection “ minimum ” or no, explain AFP several of them.

The revenue is reported at the registered independent regime (RSI) and collects social security contributions. But “ must have contributed a year to qualify for a refund capped ” and “ the delays are very long “, says Dumas.

These providers must also take out “ Professional Liability ” accident with a third party, “ too expensive ” for many.

“ more you ride, the more you win, the more you risk dying ” summarizes bitterly Jerome PIMOT former deliveryman bike from the internet platform delivery TokTokTok.com ( TTT), became a “ sniper fighting the ubérisation .”

The Observatory ubérisation concedes that these workers “ unstable ‘,’ items Default ” and “ need ‘,’ unaware of what suppose status , “but, he adds,” can not take as long as everything goes well and shoot the ambulance when things go wrong . ”

– Accident –

The labor law provides platforms to force themselves to pay this professional liability for their providers will also be able to organize, Matthew Dumas welcomes even if “ not enough .”

The “ collective steed Ile ” which boasts 700 members hear “ federate ” couriers and workers’ ubérisés “to defend a “ more protective status ‘,’ halfway between salaried and self-entrepreneurship .”

Jerome PIMOT the fight is elsewhere: it is now trying to get the “ requalification ” his TokTokTok.com provider of commercial contract employee contract, to oblige the platform to compensate by making “ demonstration of subordination ” it has with its providers.

But the lawyer TTT, Marianne Lecot, “ there is no employer-employee relationship because the horses are free + + to connect to the platform when they wish (…) and work for other . ”

Several other records were introduced in recent months by independent against the VTC platform and Urssaf against Uber. A procedure for “ undeclared work ” to TEE was transmitted “ in July ” the prosecutor of Nantes, after investigation by the labor inspectorate.