If you think that the situation of people working as Delivery Persons for Platforms is complicated, then look at what is happening in Northern Ireland.
But before we get to that, let’s first remind you of the situation in Poland: in most cases, delivery persons have signed agreements with Fleet Partners (contracts of mandate, or so-called “rental agreements”) on the basis of which they receive their earnings from Platforms (less the Partners’ commissions).
And now Northern Ireland. The heroes are the UberEats Platform and the McDonald’s restaurant chain with its McDelivery delivery service. It is supposedly a service offered by McDonald’s, but it is performed by UberEats couriers. Officially, neither McDonald’s nor UberEats employ anyone. They claim that Delivery Persons are just self-employed couriers who run their own micro-businesses.
But the Worker Info Exchange group has released a recording in which a local McDonald’s manager boasts about requiring Delivery Drivers to speak English, and that he fired an UberEats employee when he wanted to.
And here’s our question: who did he fire and how? If they’re not McDonald’s employees, and they’re not UberEats employees?
The Guardian has covered the whole thing – you can read it here: www.theguardian.com
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