Controversy with rental cars for application drivers

The Remiseros They alerted the new companies that rent private cars to application drivers and ensure that they work outside the current regulations. “They do not comply with any requirement of the law, labor or transport”they warned from the Argentine Federation of Remises (FAREM).

According to the trade unionists, every day in Argentina, vehicle rental companies multiply so that they are then used by travel applications such as Uber. “Duentas recently came out in the newspapers saying that they have 5,000 cars and that they will reach 20,000 cars, and that they are cars that work with the application of Uber. I ask myself a question: If the Uber application does not have CUIT in Argentina, is it an illegal application, they too? ”he interrogated Alejandro Polihead of Al Farem.

For the unionist, these new firms that are created are not fulfilling the collective work agreement that regulates remises workers. “They are putting cars by renting people without professional registration, without the order enabled for Remis, they do not respect traffic laws and, above all, they make them a Leonine contract, they have to pay per week advanced to take the car and work”Poly emphasized.

By the controversy arising with these new companies that use the travel apps, The Federation asked the Buenos Aires Government to intercede and requested that they quote the representatives of the company DeRentas SRL to a hearing at the Ministry of Labor and Employment. The first meeting was convened for April 15 and did not attend. The second was on May 7, and they did not appear either.

“This is how to return to 1930 and on top of when they are cited in the Ministry of Labor so that they know that there is a collective work agreement that regulates the activity of the remises and application drivers, they do not appear because they follow the example of Uber, which does not pay any tax in Argentina,” he said Alejandro Poli.

The remiteros say that the new companies follow the steps of the “Illegal transnational”, that cause “Argentine companies want to do the same: they want to rent cars to people, not pay anything, exploit workers and not fulfill anything at all, not only traffic laws even the labor contract laws,” He stressed.

Among the main failures they denounce, the remitters warned that the drivers who rent per day to work with travel applications are not enabled to transport passengers, they do not have insurance for the people who travel in the vehicle and the drivers do not have a professional record, nor are they fulfilled rights such as having a salary receipt or a retirement contribution.

“They spend advertising in career cars and running careers with the resources generated by exploited workers, it is the new business modality they are discovering in Argentina,” Poly concluded.