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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by manquer on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:39PM (#22489809)
Uber can now restrict drivers from driving on other platforms ? This will impact both the consumers and drivers for the worse.
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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by smcphile on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:57AM (#22492304)
I don’t know if Uber would be permitted to do that, I just know that in some cases it’s allowed. The term used is “concurrence déloyale” or “unfair competition”. In practice, if there was a dispute, the courts would decide if a part-time employee driving for another platform constitutes an act of “concurrence déloyale”.

In any case, I read in Le Monde this morning that this recent decision by France’s highest court may mean that Uber will just stop doing business in France (although it’s too soon to know for sure).

Here’s the link to the article in Le Monde for those who read French:

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/03/05/pour-la-c...

Edit: Punctuation. Also, the article is behind a paywall. Sorry about that, I didn’t notice, as I have a subscription.

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