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Uber Eats shuts down on New Year's Eve this year

2021-11-30T06:17:43.220Z


Uber Eats, a food delivery platform, announced today (30th) that it will terminate operations in Hong Kong by the end of this year. The company described it as making a "difficult decision" this time.


Uber Eats, a food delivery platform, announced today (30th) that it will terminate operations in Hong Kong by the end of this year.

The company described this time as a "difficult decision," and it also said that its first task is to provide support to employees, food delivery personnel, cooperative restaurants and customers.

It is understood that Uber Eats currently has about 700 delivery staff.

Ho Hung Hing, director of the Food and Hotel Workers General Union, pointed out that although Uber Eats does not have a large market share, the suspension of operations may make the other two platforms more "dominant", and it may become more difficult for takeaways to fight for treatment and rights. .


According to Uber Eats, after working with local restaurants and food delivery staff to serve Hong Kong people for five years, the platform will terminate the operation of the platform in Hong Kong at 11:59 pm on December 31. In the future, the company will focus more on Uber in Hong Kong. Travel platform services to fully expand the Uber Taxi market.

Regarding the suspension of Uber Eats in Hong Kong, Ho Hung Hing, director of the Food and Hotel Workers’ Union, pointed out that as far as he knows, Uber Eats does not have a large market share in Hong Kong, and delivery personnel are generally the mainstay of the other two platforms. Maybe by the way, take a look."

However, he pointed out that compared with other platforms, Uber Eats' salary package is very transparent. The "Calculation Equation" will show how the delivery staff's income is calculated based on the distance of the meal.

He Hung-hsing pointed out that the current delivery platforms are "watching rivals" to adjust the salaries of delivery workers. Although Uber Eats has a small market share, the suspension of operations may make the other two platforms even more "dominant."

(Information Picture/Photographed by Huang Shuhui)

He Hongxing pointed out that the current delivery platforms are "watching rivals" to adjust the remuneration of the delivery staff. The employees of the other two platforms have all gone on strike earlier. He believes that after the suspension of Uber Eats, competition in the industry has been reduced. , There are fewer incentives to improve treatment.

He pointed out that in the food delivery industry, delivery personnel are required to sign a "fake self-employment contract" before joining, stating that the company has the right to adjust the service fee at any time, so that the livelihood of delivery personnel is easily affected. The money is tight, and the income of the delivery staff is used to "decrease", but to "increase" large advertising expenses, etc." He also pointed out that the industry has been fighting for traffic accident insurance, labor insurance, etc., and the government has not been able to help define "self." "Employment" and "false self-employment" can only hope that the platform will have a corporate conscience, otherwise it will be more difficult for the delivery staff to fight for their rights.

Looking through the information, Uber Eats said in April that the company has nearly 700 takeaways, and the number of local restaurants it cooperates with reaches 7,000 and the number of registered users reaches 1.5 million.

At the time, Elisa Janiec, general manager of its Hong Kong region, revealed that the number of active restaurants in the group more than doubled from last year, and this year's goal is to double the number of cooperative restaurants and the number of users on the platform.

↓↓↓ Foodpanda and Deliveroo have had multiple strikes earlier:


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