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Written by: Zhong Yan
2021-01-16 17:04
Last update date: 2021-01-16 17:09
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has continued for a year, and citizens have reduced their trips, and the income of the public transportation industry has plummeted.
NWFB and Citybus previously asked employees to apply for unpaid leave voluntarily, and Long Win Bus also reported layoffs recently.
Zhang Ziqi, the first vice chairman of the Automobile and Transportation Industry Federation of the Federation of Trade Unions, said that no more than 10 logistic employees of Long Win had been dismissed, and a department of Long Win’s internal monitoring and evaluation of the performance of the driver was also abolished. .
Zhang said that it is not yet clear whether KMB and Long Win will have a larger scale reorganization and layoffs.
KMB and Long Win replied that, generally speaking, different departments of KMB and Long Win will review the job structure and perform performance management according to a constant mechanism, aiming to improve efficiency, emphasizing that any internal adjustment of the department will not serve passengers and Negative impacts caused by the operation of train services.
Zhang Ziqi pointed out that a small number of logistic employees of Long Win Bus were dismissed.
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Zhang Ziqi pointed out that the performance management department of the car captain involved is mainly responsible for evaluating the performance of the car captain and seeing whether the captain can "upgrade and jump point". The trade union once inquired about the incident and quoted the other party's reply. It means "it's not a big deal", it means that related work will continue, "the department does not have its name, the captain (department) always has it."
Zhang pointed out that the union did not know whether any employees were dismissed as a result.
According to the news obtained by "Hong Kong 01", due to the adjustment of relevant departments, many clerks in the original department had to be dismissed, at least one of the traffic director resigned, and several assistant directors with bus licenses were arranged to be transferred back to the front line to serve as the captain.
According to other sources, at the beginning of this week, several logistic and civilian staff at different KMB depots and Long Win were also fired.
Zhang Ziqi said that the trade union learned earlier that some logistics colleagues were dismissed, and the number of employees is not more than 10 for the time being, but he is worried that under the epidemic, the bus company will plan to reduce costs and reduce expenditure. "If it goes down, it will affect the operation of the shift."
Zhang pointed out that Long Win mainly operates airport lines. Under the epidemic, passenger demand is basically at a low level. He believes that the government has no shirk and should help the bus companies tide over the difficulties. service".
The union cited NWFB and Citybus to implement eight measures, including the introduction of 1 to 2 days of mandatory unpaid leave every month, the abolition of extra holiday allowances and the hourly wage calculation for work less than 8 hours.
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NWFB and Citybus have also deliberately implemented cost-saving measures earlier, including mandatory unpaid leave for employees, and requiring the captain to provide wages with hourly wages for less than 8 hours.
In the end, due to fierce opposition from the labor union and employees, the management decided to suspend the implementation of the unpaid leave plan and changed the hourly wage payment arrangement to a voluntary nature, but the holiday bonus will be cancelled.
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