Poor job conditions for taxi drivers – Dagens Industri

Vile job conditions for taxi drivers

                  2015-05-05 05:41
             

Session of 12-13 hours. Six to seven day work week. Low wages.

The terms of the taxi industry in Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm are often miserable, according to a survey echo done.

This is an industry in case says Marcus Pettersson, Assistant National Secretary of the Transport Unions, the Echo on Swedish Radio.

The news program interviewed 100 taxi drivers about their conditions. Half of them say they work twelve hours or more per session. Thirteen of the drivers are working every day of the year, which is illegal.

The salaries are in most cases the commission-based, and the ten who earn at least have a salary of less than 54 kronor per hour before tax. The very minimum hourly wage is only average 27 crowns.

Nine of those earning at least engaged for transport services and patient transport, ie travel which is partly financed by taxpayers.

Taxi Kurir are one of the companies interviewed drivers working for. The company’s CEO Magnus Klint Brook says he does not recognize the image that echoes The survey shows.

We have 3000 drivers, clear that not everyone can be satisfied. But there are certainly those who are also satisfied too, he says.

Transports Marcus Pettersson considers that the conditions are even indecent.

This is a labor market that has absolute worst and poor working conditions.

100 taxi drivers in Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm were interviewed by Echo on Swedish Radio.

The average salary is SEK 80 per hour, 21,642 crowns before tax per month.

On average, drivers are working 11 hours per day, or an average of 287 hours per month.

Eight working 40 hours per week or less, the rest 92 are working more.

The ten drivers with the lowest salary running for 27-54 crowns per hour before tax.

Thirteen drivers work seven days a week year-round, which is illegal.

The 17 works more than 346 hours per month (two full-time).

37 per cent of respondents working at Taxi Kurir, 25 percent of Taxi 020, 11 percent of Taxi Stockholm and 10 percent in Sweden taxis. The others are running for other companies.

Source: Echo on Swedish Radio