Arriva drivers’ pay ‘in line with collective agreement’

Some Arriva drivers confused about their payslips were not fully aware of the details of the employer-union collective agreement, the transport operator said. Responding to questions about the General Workers’ Union statement this week claiming that drivers were regularly underpaid, an Arriva spokesman said some of those concerned were paid correctly in line with the agreement. “The issue was immediately rectified with an explanation of how their pay is calculated during one-to-one meetings,” the spokesman said. He added there were some “one-off” discrepancies in drivers’ pay cheques, which the GWU had highlighted. These were due to unclear information on employee timesheets as well as genuine human error, such as the case in which 77 hours’ overtime owed to one driver was calculated as seven hours. In these cases, the amounts due were added on to the next pay cheques. The collective agreement bet­ween the GWU and Arriva was signed on September 20 and some additions were included on November 15. Several Arriva drivers at the Valletta terminus this week told The Times, on condition of anonymity, that they had not seen a copy of the document. One GWU member claimed that, since...