VTC drivers will be able to earn more. The reservation platforms announced on Tuesday that they had reached agreements for an increase in remuneration to a minimum of nine euros per trip and thirty euros per hour.
“The federations of VTC platforms, the API and the FFTPR, signed today (Tuesday) with the representative organizations of drivers a new sectoral agreement on income”, putting in place “unprecedented guarantees”, explained these organizations in a press release. These are “a minimum hourly income guarantee of 30 euros, a mileage income guarantee of one euro per kilometer as well as an increase in the minimum net income per journey”, to nine euros compared to 7.65 euros previously.
Proof of “the solidity of sectoral social dialogue”
According to Yves Weisselberger, president of the French Federation of Passenger Transport by Reservation (FFTPR), this agreement “proves the solidity of French sectoral social dialogue in the platform sector”. “Far from the false debates that some are trying to impose on a salary that the vast majority of drivers reject, we are demonstrating that the platforms are listening to the priorities of drivers,” he added.
The FFTPR brings together Allocab, Bolt, Free Now, Heetch, LeCab and Marcel, while the API brings together Uber and Caocao. For the president of API, Veruschka Becquart, “the establishment of a minimum hourly income makes it possible to combine the predictability and financial security of employment while maintaining the flexibility and freedom of independence”.
An increase to combat inflation
Same satisfaction from the president of one of the main driver organizations, the Association des VTC de France (AVF). Karim Daoud estimated that the long-negotiated agreement represented “a revolution in the world of VTC”. The minimum income per trip will have increased in a little over a year from six to nine euros, “it’s not nothing,” he declared, while the kilometric rate of one euro has been decided “ to avoid social dumping” from lower-priced platforms, according to him.
These advances will allow drivers to better cope with the general increase in costs, fueled by inflation but also the need to invest in less polluting vehicles, added Karim Daoud, expressing “great satisfaction”.