Uber will offer a new hiring model for its drivers throughout Switzerland, announces its director. They will either have to be hired by a partner company and thus pay social insurance, or continue to drive ‘independently’.
‘The new ‘dual’ model is a Swiss solution”, declares Jean-Pascal Aribot in an interview broadcast by the newspapers of the press group CH-Media and in the Tribune de Genève and 24 Heures. ‘Switzerland is a challenge, but it offers the possibility, according to the canton, to try new things’.
This dual system is inspired by what has already been tested in Lausanne, adds Mr. Aribot in ’24 Heures and the Tribune de Genève. ‘From the first months of this year, we began to introduce, in the canton of Vaud, the possibility of salaried drivers by MITC’ Mobility, a company set up by a specialist in wage portage.
In June, the Federal Court ruled that Uber drivers should be considered employees and not self-employed. Geneva had threatened to ban the multinational in early July if it did not comply with the Geneva law on taxis and transport cars with driver (LTVTC)
Compliance concerns not only the payment of contractual salaries, but also all social security contributions. Negotiations between Uber and their drivers failed in Geneva, the latter having refused Tuesday evening the proposed agreement intended to settle the past.
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