A union leader says he’s dismayed after bosses at the Department of Community, Culture and Leisure threatened to lay off drivers in a row over cost-saving.
Unite head Steve Salter says bus drivers were told they’d have to give up paid lunch breaks – which are currently worth around ?4,000 a year.
The moves, at a meeting last week, came as the department tries to cut back on costs within the bus service.
Mr Salter says the announcement was a shock
However, Chief Executive of the Department of Community, Culture and Leisure, Nick Black, says the Department has to make savings and drivers and their representatives understand that.
Talks are ongoing, but as drivers are no longer needed to work their lunchbreaks, clearly payment for such a service can't
continue.
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