No, Uber Eats has not recruited for a tightening of the curfew

An Uber Eats delivery man in Paris during

in March 2020. -

• According to a Facebook post, an information meeting was held within the company Uber to deal with an upcoming spike in orders.

• Questioned by

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  , the company denies having received information related to a tightening of the curfew or a possible confinement.

• But doctors are actually calling for the curfew to be brought forward to 7 p.m. and for containment on weekends.

  The government is seriously considering these assumptions.

Rumor swells, swells, swells.

And the fear of a curfew from 7 p.m. in France due to coronavirus - instead of 9 p.m. as is currently the case in many departments - is sometimes expressed unexpectedly.

As with this post, which went viral this Sunday on Facebook, claiming that Uber will recruit thousands of delivery people for its Uber Eats home delivery business.

This image has gone viral on Facebook.

- Screenshot

According to this publication shared thousands of times, “the company expects a spike in orders on its platform.

She would have received the information of a lowering of the curfew to 7 p.m. as well as of a possible confinement at the weekend.

The info [allegedly] leaked during a briefing with Uber Eats employees in France.

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This post very quickly gave rise to multiple interpretations, comments and hypotheses from Internet users: "Some are already aware apparently ...", "But it is certain, everything is already planned.

They just go smoothly so as not to create too much knockout.

in the country ", or again:" It is quite possible!

During the first lockdown, large companies ordered thousands of portable computers.

Meetings were held long before the announcement in the media, so they were able to prepare for teleworking for their employees.

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The issue of an advanced curfew at 7 p.m. and on weekends is well defended by some doctors and caregivers.

Sunday, LCI reported a statement written by doctors asking for these measures, and comparing the "half-measures of the current curfew" to the "funny war of 1939-40".

"Doctors from the Regional Union of Liberal Health Professionals of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are calling for an extension of the curfew and confinement of the population at weekends, considering that" the situation is serious and [that] the time is no longer for half measures, ”writes LCI.

URPS Doctors Aura: press release

"The effort requested from caregivers must be accompanied by an effort from the entire population". # Urpsmlaura # COVID19 # solidarity #UnionNationalhttps: //t.co/LiB07ZenfW

- URPS Doctors AuRA (@URPSMEDAuRA) October 23, 2020

"No recruitment process"

Uber France, to which

submitted the image circulating on social networks, denies any intention to recruit within the company due to a reinforced curfew or a weekend confinement: “I confirms that this message is not from Uber Eats and that we have no information about any changes to the curfew rules.

The only information we have is public and shared by the government.

The Uber Eats app is open to all delivery people who can use it after registering through this link.

So Uber Eats does not conduct a recruitment process.

Today, 35,000 delivery people use the Uber Eats app to make deliveries in France.

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The rumor of a confinement from 7 p.m. had already spread in the middle of last week after an editorial by RTL radio.

On October 21, the journalist Olivier Bost relayed the words of a minister who, on condition of anonymity, estimated that "the curfew at 7 pm will [it] very quickly be generalized throughout France".

A personal opinion taken up by some media as the announcement of an extended curfew.

Anyway, this Monday, still on RTL, the president of the scientific council, François Delfraissy, envisaged the solution of going "towards a more massive curfew both in its schedules and in its extent, and that 'it can also be set up for example at weekends ”.

"The faster we take measures, the more the level of these measures will have a certain form of efficiency," he said.

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