Deliveroo's delivery drivers called on consumers to boycott the home delivery platform with which they are in dispute over their new fee schedule on Wednesday, which in their view leads to lower pay.
A boycott for the day, before a national action
"Today, we are trying to educate consumers and we are asking them, just today, not to order Deliveroo and not to connect, by supporting the movement," Jean-Daniel Zamor told AFP. , president of the Collective of the Parisian autonomous deliverers (CLAP 75). "We also ask the delivery men to meet to make our rights heard and show that we can hit," he added, adding that a rally was scheduled from 19 hours in the Republic Square in Paris and that it would be followed by the blocking of several restaurants.
Delivery men also plan to take a national action next weekend. In some cities, like in the capital, they will be on strike Saturday while in others, in Grenoble for example, it will be Sunday, announced Jean-Daniel Zamor.
A new price list denounced by the deliverymen
The Paris deliverymen had already met last Saturday to protest against the decision of the British platform to lower the tariffs of the shortest races and to increase that of the long races, neglected by the deliverymen because not very profitable. The platform has removed the minimum price of 4.70 euros for a race, which applied to Paris (it varies by city). "Deliveroo was the platform that was paying pretty much the best but now it is aligning with its competitors," said Jean-Daniel Zamor. "This makes the whole sector precarious".
According to the platform, the new grid offers "better pricing, more fair" and "more than 54% of orders are paid more". But for Jean-Daniel Zamor, long races are not profitable because "they can do more than one hour, the equivalent of three or four short races". It estimates between 30 and 50% the loss of remuneration for the deliverymen. With 10,000 partner restaurants in 200 cities, the French market is the second largest for Deliveroo, after the UK-based market.