A bus driver would have lost his job for helping a student

A bus driver from Saint-Alexis-des-Monts was allegedly dismissed last June for having authorized. However, a student to climb aboard his bus without the name of her appearing on his list of passengers.

Moreover, Stéphane Lévesque still has difficulty digesting his dismissal from the ALLARDS ALLARD company.

On May 28. Therefore, when he was in office, the driver learned that one of the young girls in his bus was not allowed to get on board.

I’m new, I don’t know all the ruleshe said. Therefore, My first reaction was to tell me that this little girl wanted to go to school. Furthermore, I encourage that. However, I have room, I won’t make a drama with this storysays Stéphane Lévesque.

The grandmother of the 13-year-old girl, who was to take public transport, explains her granddaughter’s bus driver would have lost decision by her insecurity.

At one point, we want to follow our friends. Meanwhile, We are all alone in our other bus. For example, My [petite-fille] is not bad insecure, so she wants to follow others in school transportshe says.

According to her. Consequently, it was impossible for her granddaughter to take school transport since no place was available at the start of the year.

A solution had then been offered to him: public transport. However, the girl was to get up two hours earlier to use it.

It was really difficult: in addition to transporting my [petite-fille]I had to wake up two other young childrendeplores the grandmother. In addition, who also lives in Saint-Alexis-des-Monts. It is a nonsense, public transport, that it is starting two hours ahead in the morningshe adds.

For Stéphane Lévesque, it was just as bus driver would have lost insane not to act. Children’s safety is a social responsibility, I could not close my eyes on thishe says.

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The driver had therefore decided to contact the grandmother. His goal? Understand the reasons that explained the absence of the young teenager on her list of passengers.

In these procedures. he also wrote to the bus driver would have lost Energy School Service Center (CSS) to point out that several places were available in his bus. So he hoped to help the girl.

The answer he obtained, however, left him without words. [Ils m’ont dit] : “Not the right to call parents, not the right to communicate with the CSS.” They want it. drivers, but if you want to make a nice gesture, [on te dit] : “What are you getting involved?”

Stéphane says he understands the reasoning of CSS. I understood that I could not bring children who were not on my list. but I told myself that the list, we could update it, right? I tried to update it by communicating with the school service center. but when my employer saw that I continued in my bus driver would have lost process, it was there that he gave me my letter as [congédiement].

By taking his efforts. Stéphane Lévesque would have broken regulations in force relating to contractual obligations with the school service center.

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In his letter of dismissal, bus Allard also evokes, to justify this dismissal, a complaint for excessive speed as well bus driver would have lost as the communication and use of confidential information. However, the company refused to comment on this case.

For its part. the CSS Energy confirms that he has made no request to the carrier for the layoff of this driver.

At the time of Stéphane Lévesque’s dismissal, there were only three weeks of school left. The young teenager was finally able to integrate the circuit until the end of the school year.

I find that it is an injustice that my daughter finds her place in school transportation. that a man lost [son emploi]says the grandmother. Drivers like that, we don’t have them every dayshe adds.

Stéphane Lévesque believes that his good action cost him dearly.

Bus driver would have lost

A continuous bus driver would have lost census?

Currently. according to Stéphane Lévesque, the Energy School Service Center (CSS) asks the bus drivers to take the students’ presence a month after the start of the school year, in September. The list of passengers would then be established according to the names collected.

The ex-heater and the grandmother denounce this way of doing things. According to them. it is illogical that the CSS Energy does not make more frequent updates of students’ lists during the year.

They believe that a continuous census would allow more students to have access to school transport.

The census should be done every two monthsdeplores the grandmother. The security of my granddaughter would have been put into play that evening if he had not. taken it on it.