Delivery and VTC against additional health imposed by the platforms

Self-employed workers from Deliveroo or Uber-type platforms opposed in a forum Monday the government’s plan to allow the platforms that employ them to offer them, from 2023, additional social protection. The INV, CLAP, SCP VTC, Indépendants.co and the Sharer & Workers network accuse France of playing “the platform game” by giving them the means to “create social dependence”.

The workers of these platforms, who benefit from self-employed status, can currently subscribe to complementary health insurance, if they wish and at their own expense. The amendment was rejected by the Senate on November 12 and must be discussed by the National Assembly. The government defends the guarantee of protection for these workers and ensures that its financing will be “excluded from the base of social contributions and contributions” of the latter.

The fear of the insurance precedent

But its application could be “dangerous”, warn union representatives, who strongly oppose it. “It is the construction of a third statute which does not speak its name”, fears Jérôme Pimot, president of CLAP and co-signatory of the platform. “Social dependence means that if you don’t make your turnover, you lose your social protection”, underlines Hind Elidrissi, representative of Independants.co. The worker would thus have neither the rights of an employee nor those of a self-employed person.

Moreover, the trade unions fear to finally pay for this protection: “We had already seen what it looked like with insurance! », Criticizes Jérôme Pimot. In 2017, in response to the growing media coverage of courier accidents, several platforms offered their workers free insurance to cover them in the event of an accident. But the latter were financed by “a decrease in remuneration”, assures the trade unionist.

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