Near Toulouse, civil servants hired as school bus drivers
Civil servants who drive school cars after their day’s work: this has been possible for a little over three weeks. At the end of December, the government issued a decree which authorizes state agents to work in the school transport sector.
Limit the shortage of drivers
A way oftotal against the shortage of drivers cars: around 4,000 are missing in France according to a figure given by the government at the start of the school year in September. But it is also a way to allow civil servants to make ends meet. Stéphane is one of the first civil servants to have won a contract with a transport company in Haute-Garonne. He signed a contract with Négoti EPTR Mobilités, a transport company from Plaisance-du-Touch to the south of Toulouse.
This official who works full-time shifts in finance administration in Toulouse will now drive a nine-seater school minibus for around fifteen hours a week (smoothed over the year) in Léguevin. Stéphane has high expenses since his family lives in Vendée. A new job that will allow him to work more to earn more, which he considers a real bonus, as a civil servant: “The increases are decided rarely and in a very modified way, which has a strong impact on me. I have a double rent: the war in Ukraine was not planned, the price of gasoline which explodes was not planned, you have to face it. Afterwards, it’s a choice: I could very well say that I do nothing, that I go out more, that I lower my heating and that I reduce everything to a minimum. That’s what I I did for a while. But at one point, rather than staying in circles, I had this possibility. I’m doing something useful: it’s doing a service to the community and to me too for the extra that that bring me.”
Interesting profiles for managers of transport companies
Jean-Michel Blin, CEO of Négoti EPTR Mobilités sees these new profiles in a very good light: “These are people who are used to having responsibilitiess in their field. Their missions have similarities with ours since we have public service missions.”
Négoti EPTR Mobilités could recruit other civil servants: the company is looking for about fifteen employees.
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