France, April 24 -- Delivery workers are "completely dependent" on the platforms and "forced to accept any working conditions", argue the plaintiffs: the Maison des Livreurs (Delivery Workers' Centre) in Bordeaux, the Maison des Coursiers (Couriers' Centre) in Paris, and the delivery worker support groups AMAL and Ciel.

The complaint was lodged on Wednesday with the Paris public prosecutor's office against the British company Deliveroo and the American giant Uber, platforms that "make significant profits by exploiting the vulnerability of these workers", according to Jonathan L'Utile Chevallier, project coordinator at the Maison des Livreurs in Bordeaux.

Uber Eats said in a statement that it had learned of the complaint through the medi...