Just Eat employees on strike in Toulouse
At the call of the FO and CGT unions, the employees of Just Eat in Toulouse were on strike on Saturday October 22. They oppose a redundancy plan.
Deliveries took longer than usual. Employees of meal delivery platform Just Eat went on strike Saturday October 22 in Toulouse and in around twenty cities. They responded to the call launched, for the first time, by FO and the CGT, the two majority unions among the employees of the Dutch company.
Employees oppose a layoff plan announced in the summer of 2022. They also want to point out the deterioration of working conditions. Just Eat has been present in Toulouse since 2021. Unlike its competitors Uber eats and Deliveroo, which use self-employed couriers, the Dutch platform has chosen to have salaried deliverers in its ranks in 27 cities.
About fifteen Just Eat positions threatened in Toulouse
“Barely two years after announcing with great fanfare to hire bicycle delivery men as employees and no longer as self-employed entrepreneurs, Just Eat continues its social decline. Mid-July, the meal delivery company has announced a social plan to cut 350 jobs delivery people and around forty executives and supervisors”, indicates Force Ouvrière on its site.
The platform will terminate the activity of its employees in 26 of the 27 cities in which it is deployed. In Toulouse, Just Eat would employ around fifteen people. The company intends to retain employees only in the Paris region. It intends to rely on autoentrepreneurs in the rest of the country. Negotiations are scheduled from October 24.
A job safeguard plan is in preparation. But various measures of this plan would correspond “to those of a company in a situation of recovery or even judicial liquidation”, according to the Drieets (Regional Directorate for the Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity), in a letter addressed to management, which AFP was able to consult.