Bus drivers to sit for exam

In a letter sent to the bus drivers, Transport Minister Austin Gatt had promised "guaranteed employment" with whoever wins the public transport reform contract. However, Torċa now reports that only 550 bus driver are needed to work with Arriva.

General Workers’ Union secretary-general Tony Zarb told the newspaper that, “bus drivers are looking at the exam as an excuse to let them off.”

Zarb said that at the beginning of talks on the public transport reform bus drivers had been “guaranteed a safe job for 10 years.”