Just Eat Takeway could lay off 350 employees in France

Geoffrey Branger, edited by Ophélie Artaud 9:06 p.m., July 20, 2022

Is meal delivery losing ground?

Just eat Takeaway is about to lay off.

Business is no longer as booming as it was during the peak of covid-related lockdowns.

Just Eat, formerly Alloresto, therefore wants to part with more than half of its workforce in France.

It represents 350 employees.

Call for service providers

At Just eat, almost all the deliverers were on permanent contracts, unlike the competition.

If this social plan really saw the light of day, there would only be 220 employees left.

And they would all be in Paris.

The twenty-six other cities where the service is located would now call on service providers.

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“Commercial activity will continue with self-employed delivery people from the Stuart platform, which belongs to La Poste. And it is very likely that in cities where salaried employment is eliminated, it will be this service provider who will take over the activity. There is still a very strong message sent to the workers which says 'we will replace you with autoentrepreneurs'", notes Ludovic Riou, secretary general CGT Deliverers.

The objective would therefore be to reduce costs.

However, at the start of the year, the platform had announced the hiring of 4,500 couriers on permanent contracts.

In fact, Just eat suffers from too much competition with Uber Eats or Deliveroo in particular.

The home delivery company would like, with this reduction in staff, to start again on a dynamic of sustainable and profitable growth, according to management.

For employees, this announcement comes at the worst time since negotiations were underway to improve working conditions and raise salaries.