School bus drivers workday pay.
November 4, 2013 7:51 AM   Subscribe

I live in Boston where public school bus drivers are threatening to strike. They pickup kids and drive them to school and return they home at the end of the day. Are they paid for the down time between runs or are they only paid for actual driving time?
posted by BillyAnne to Travel & Transportation (3 answers total)
 
The contract is available here (151-page pdf). Looks like there are "regular" (or "bus") and "charter" hours and rates, and there's all manner of non-driving time (safety check, prep, etc.) that are mandated. In particular, Appendix A cites "Standard Daily Transportation, morning, mid-day and afternoon, including dead head time".
posted by Etrigan at 8:05 AM on November 4, 2013


Best answer: One of the arguments about this particular case is that the drivers are (mostly) paid hourly but there have been problems with getting accurately reimbursed in a timely fashion and about the way drivers are supposed to log hours in order to get paid. They collect unemployment for the months they do not work. The bus routes are run by independent companies who contract with the school districts. This company, Veolia, just took over the bus contract this summer. Usually there are a chunk of hours in the morning (getting elementary, junior high and high school kids in, in staggered shifts) and then a chunk of hours off and then a chunk of driving hours in the afternoon. "Dead head" time is usually time spent driving back to a location with an empty bus, it does not mean downtime not driving.
posted by jessamyn at 8:14 AM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]


Response by poster: Etrigan and jessamyn,
Excellent links! Thanks
posted by BillyAnne at 10:05 AM on November 4, 2013


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