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Justice reclassifies an Uber driver as an employee: are uberization players threatened?

3/5/2020, 8:04:27 PM


DECRYPTION - The Court of Cassation recognizes "a link of subordination" between the driver and his platform. A first, supposed to set a precedent.

The Court of Cassation reclassified Wednesday as an employment contract the relationship that Uber had with one of its drivers. Like any new court decision, it raises several questions. If it constitutes a first in France, this judgment could have consequences far beyond the walls of Uber alone. The American giant has certainly lent its name to a system linking a digital platform with a self-employed worker - uberization - the fact remains that today the actors operating in this way are plethora: Lyft, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Kapten, Bolt ... Should these companies fear a domino effect?

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Jérôme Pimot, spokesperson for the Collective of independent deliverymen of Paris (CLAP 75), assures that there are “a lot of requests [to obtain a requalification] , especially from Deliveroo deliverymen. "A hundred files have already been created:" the announcement was a big thunderbolt, "he says.

A thunderclap that

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