The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region has implemented a new system for school bus drivers since the start of the school year.
Thanks to a mobile phone, the employer can indeed geolocate the drivers at any time.
A system that would have led to the dismissal of a driver in the Billanges sector (Haute-Vienne).
The latter dropped off the children in front of their homes, considering that certain stops, located on a dark and little frequented country road, were too dangerous.
But the geolocation system is denounced by a majority of drivers who evoke a "policing", according to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
The latter speak of a “dehumanization of work”.
They also advance the particularity of circuits in rural areas which would in fact impose a certain flexibility on them.
An anonymous testimony has also told our colleagues that “the stops of convenience or wild, it has always been done”.
6,000 circuits to organize
On the side of the Region, it is estimated that the device makes it possible above all to optimize the care of children whose badges are registered by the telephone at each visit.
Renaud Lagrave, vice-president of the Region in charge of transport, reminds France 3 that it is necessary to organize 6,000 circuits per day and rejects the accusations of policing.
The driver dismissed for "wild stops" decided to challenge this decision before the Labor Court.
An online petition has been launched for his reinstatement.
It accumulates this Thursday more than 63,000 signatures.
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