US EditionBicycle Delivery in France: Workers Enslaved by Platforms, Denounces Médecins Du Monde
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Sixty-three hours of work per week for a gross salary of €1,480. This is the reality of the bicycle delivery business, revealed by a study by the Institute for Development Research and the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). According to Le Monde, 99 per cent of the 1,004 deliverers interviewed between January and May 2025 are men and were born abroad. Among these men, 66 per cent are without a residence permit and 75 per cent are…
Uber Eats, for his part, denounces a biased methodology by Médecins du monde, as well as a study based on too few testimonies.
Full days spent on their bikes, discriminations, road accidents: it is the daily life of bicycle delivery agents, often foreigners, living in France, who receive on average a gross monthly wage of 1,480 euros. A survey by Médecins du Monde, conducted in 2025 among 1,000 delivery agents in Paris and Bordeaux, shows an alarming finding of their difficult working conditions and their vulnerability to Uber, Deliveroo or Stuart platforms.
An extensive study by the NGO published this Tuesday objective the difficult working conditions of workers dependent on platforms.
A thousand delivery machines for bicycle meals were questioned in Paris and Bordeaux, about the approximately 70,000 carrying out this hard work in France. Their working conditions are exhausting, the hours poorly paid and the consideration often absent, reveals this Tuesday a study by Médec...
The Santé-Course study, conducted with 1,000 delivery agents in Paris and Bordeaux, is the first to objective on a large scale the links between the working conditions and the health of these workers on the platforms, mostly in an irregular situation.
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