The corporate is going through a significant scarcity of employees. Consequently, fewer trains have been working since September. As of November 7, the timetable will probably be additional decreased. The prepare failure results in many complaints from passengers.
The intention is for workplace employees, on a voluntary foundation, to work as assistant conductors for a number of hours per week. They obtain a shortened course and work along with skilled conductors. The NS needs to begin this at the start of 2023. Finally, the railway firm hopes to have the ability to deploy a number of hundred assistant conductors.
A spokesperson for the NS speaks of short-term emergency measures, till there are sufficient new workers who can get began. Purposes for jobs reminiscent of conductor and prepare driver have tripled in latest occasions, the spokesperson mentioned.
FNV-spoor says it’s “definitely not in opposition to” the measure of the NS to deploy workplace employees on the trains. “However security ought to all the time come first,” mentioned a union spokesman. “The coaching and steerage should be good.” Based on the union, it will likely be fairly a problem. “Workplace employees are additionally busy.”
Wouter Koolmees
With Wouter Koolmees, the Dutch Railways have once more a president from as we speak. Monetary director Bert Groenewegen has been quickly on the helm of the railway firm since this summer time. He crammed the hole that arose when Marjan Rintel left to change into a prime lady at KLM.
Koolmees, former Minister of Social Affairs, has been appointed for 4 years. He’s coming into a turbulent time for NS, as a result of along with the personnel issues, the tender for the concession for the primary rail community will even run from 2025. The cupboard plans to award this to NS privately once more for the following ten years, however rivals and the European Fee need this course of to be stopped. There’s additionally the likelihood that the worldwide connections will probably be faraway from the concession. The rail firm fears that with out these profitable connections it will likely be harder to hold out the remainder of the timetable and nonetheless stay worthwhile.
