After thousands of hours of service, putting their health and safety at risk amid the Covid-19 pandemic, SMRT drivers are shocked at the rapid increase in fees instead of the company’s promise of a “new and fairer contract”.
Less than a month after that, the contract offer was retracted, and on June 14, the daily rate offered to drivers was changed to S$150 per day on a two-year term, a 53 per cent increase in less than two months. He highlighted that the drivers are left without means of appeal. They were also informed of a waiting list “with hundreds of potential new drivers” willing to step in and take their jobs.
“I guess the petition did help to make them make some changes, especially since NPHVA did contact them several times,” said Mr Tan.