The election of delivery and VTC representatives, which began on Monday and is due to last until May 16, is "a historic meeting" for these workers and will allow them to improve their "conditions" while "respecting their status self-employed", greets the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne.

new rights

The minister's ambition, quoted in a press release, is to promote the expression of a dialogue between employers and workers to enable the latter "to benefit from new rights and to exercise their activity under better conditions, while respecting the independent status to which most of them are attached".

Seven organizations and unions have applied for the college of transport cars with driver (VTC) and nine for that of two-wheeled delivery people.

The lists which have obtained at least 5% of the votes during this first single round ballot (8% during the following ones) will each be able to designate three members who will sit during the negotiation meetings.

120,000 workers concerned

These, like the system protecting “classic” employee representatives, will be protected in the event of termination of their commercial contract with an employing platform and which should not result from their activity as representatives.

This election concerns more than 120,000 workers (around 39,000 drivers and 84,000 deliverers) among the self-employed working with platforms such as Uber or Deliveroo.

A powerful message

To appear on the electoral lists, they can be of any nationality but must be registered as self-employed and attached to certain platforms for which they will have carried out a minimum number of services between July and December 2021. This effectively eliminates the many unemployed papers working discreetly in this sector.

“France is the first country which will have thus set up a public process, framed by texts, which allows independent workers to appoint their representatives”, also welcomed Bruno Mettling, the president of the Regulatory Authority. employment platforms (Arpe), the body created to organize these elections and then organize social dialogue in the sector.

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