Just Eat Takeaway will lay off 269 delivery workers on permanent contracts, i.e. a third of its employees in France. The Anglo-Dutch meal delivery group announced this earlier this week. Reason given: a uncertain economic context “. A decision that does not pass among the organizations for the defense of employees.
At 19, Ange is already a staff representative in Paris. A delivery man since December 2020 at Just Eat, he attended the CSE, the social and economic committee of the company, with management on Tuesday morning. A job safeguard plan was announced there. The young man speaks following this meeting, at the microphone of Simon Magnyfor RFI.
We did not expect to have this information in the context of the meeting. But in fact, they also prepared us, in the meeting, they said to us: “We have bad news to announce to you, we are very sad to meet like this…” Because in addition, it was the finance director in the box, we had never seen him, and he came to the meeting to give us a little overview, and why they came to this decision. We will do everything to try to fight for these delivery men, who are threatened.
Just Eat had chosen to pay its delivery workers in an already very competitive market. Last year, the group announced the recruitment in France of 4,500 delivery workers on permanent contracts. He now intends to lay off 269, out of 800 or 900 currently in total. For Ange, the company mismanaged its establishment in France.
The box, she wanted to grow very quickly. She grew very quickly. There are groups above Just Eat who have the money and the means, and now they are trying to give us a speech like that, on the imperative of adjustment which would be the delivery men, and we don’t want don’t let that happen
The decision has not been made of lightheartedness “, told Agence France-Presse Meleyne Rabot, general manager of Just Eat France. However, the announcement does not discourage the young man. ” It is a reorganization project, reminds Angel, it’s not done yet. And normally, the CSE must give an opinion on it. We, we think that there is still a way to prevail on certain things. »
In any case, the union representative assures him: the workers’ defense organizations will not let up on the layoffs. No negotiation possible in this matter. On French territory, Just Eat currently serves some 2,500 municipalities, and its model is based on employees in 27 cities in the country.
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The platform would like to keep deliverers on permanent contracts only in Paris and its suburbs, but also in Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lille and Roubaix. In twenty other cities, including Bordeaux and Nantes, it plans to ” switch from an employee model to an alternative delivery method ” unspecified.
The process undertaken also concerns between 23 and 30 positions in the support functions, to keep only 41. The reorganization, concludes the leader, could be effective “ during the 2nd semester “. Just Eat would only keep 530 deliverers on permanent contracts in France, where its economic situation would be “ more complex than elsewhere.
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