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Meal deliverers working for Uber Eats in Saint-Etienne have obtained an improvement in their working conditions, including a minimum hourly rate under conditions, after a few well-attended strikes, several of their representatives said on Sunday.

“Since Monday, Uber Eats applies to Saint-Etienne a minimum remuneration of 10 euros between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and of 12 euros between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., on condition of having completed at least two races in the hour and reaching a rate 85% acceptance of proposed orders, ”said Pierre, one of the movement's spokespersons, who refused to give his last name.

A deal only for Uber Eats

"To our knowledge, we are the only city in France where they have put this system in place, following the strong mobilization of most of the 200 delivery people who work there for this platform on December 13 and 18," a he specified.

According to him, "a rain premium, lower than that which existed before the first confinement, has just been restored, up to one euro per order".

The agreement does not apply to other meal delivery platforms like Deliveroo.

“What we have obtained is very insufficient.

We also need a minimum wage for the other times of the day during which we work, “responded Junior, another courier.

“New actions will take place after the holidays.

It could be that they target in particular other platforms, like Deliveroo which did not budge and did not even contact us ”, he warns.

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