Representatives from both Uber and the CFDT transport union met on 12 December to discuss the changing nature of the freelance chauffeur driver profession. At the close of the meeting a working schedule was set out for the first six months of 2017. The 12 December meeting to which only the CFDT was invited came about at a time when several Uber driver associations are to demonstrate on 15 December in protest over their current working conditions.
Following six hours of what Uber’s statement called ‘intense and active exchanges’ Uber France and the CFDT have agreed to work together on several areas for the fist six months of 2017. The first area, which the online chauffeur transport reservation business put forward for attention, is improving the sector’s workers’ social protection. The second area addresses car parking solutions and rest times for independent drivers at airports; a particularly thorny topic as these drivers often find t
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