Are considered employees
Uber has to pay French drivers 17 million euros
The US ride-hailing service Uber has been sentenced to pay around 17 million francs to 139 drivers in the French city of Lyon. This was announced by the driver’s lawyer at the French news agency AFP on Friday.
Published: 13 minutes ago
During protests against Uber in 2015, taxi drivers in Geneva demanded: “The state must enforce the law”. (archive image)
Uber was obliged to reassess the contracts of the 139 drivers, said lawyer Stéphane Teyssier, confirming a report from a regional newspaper. The decision was made by a labor court before which the Uber drivers from Lyon had gone.
Teyssier said that court relied on a 2020 ruling by a Court of Cassation that Uber drivers should be considered employees of the company.
When asked, Uber told the AFP news agency that the company would appeal the decision. In general, labor courts and courts of appeal come to the conclusion that drivers who carry out their passenger transport with the Uber app are self-employed.
In Switzerland, the federal court ruled in May last year that Uber falls under the Taxis and Transport Vehicles Act in Geneva and must therefore treat its drivers as employees and not as self-employed.
(SDA)