The public transport operator Transdev has been looking for bus drivers since the start of the school year. Ditto for Keolis, another operator. Seine-et-Marne, Val-d’Oise and Yvelines are particularly affected by the shortage.
Transdev needs bus drivers. In early September, the Île-de-France region and Transdev estimate the need for drivers Transdev to 5,460 to be able to provide all the routes.
According to our information, the Company looking for 500 drivers In the Ile-de-France region since the start of the school year in September. This traditionally stressed sector is facing a vast shortage of personnel. “We are short of 292 drivers, but we are looking to recruit 500 to have a margin“, explains the company, “because we take into account the importance of turnover, absenteeism which is particularly strong at the moment“, noted Transdev. The company is looking for contracts on time partial, temporary workers, but also CDIs.
“This problem of recruitment in transport is both structural and cyclical”, explains this Tuesday on franceinfo Marie-Ange Debon, president of the Union of urban and rail transport (UTP) and CEO of Keolis. “Economic first, because the start of the school year is always a period of high tension. Regarding the structural, we have had quite a few retirements with an age pyramid that has not been favorable to us for several months.”
The transport company estimates that the “most urgent needs” in terms of drivers are in Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines and Val-d’Oise, the departments of the outer suburbs. “The recruitment shortage was undoubtedly better anticipated in Seine-Saint-Denis, Essonne and Val-de-Marne“, we conclude at Transdev.
The operator indicates that the needs in terms of recruitment do not concern only the drivers, but also the mechanics, the operating and control agents.
The RATP, for its part, has launched vast recruitment campaigns and is still looking for 800 bus drivers. The Parisian transport company is even obliged to reduce frequencies on certain bus lines. The SNCF, which is not spared either, must remove since the start of the school year 19 trains daily on line C of the RER, because it lacks around fifty drivers.
Sources : Franceinfo
