The Government Empowers Drivers to Stop or Not Start in the Face of “Serious Risk” and Provides Protection for Reporting Security Failures
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Drivers will be able to interrupt a trip if they consider that there is a serious and imminent risk. Employees will also be able to report operational risks, through internal channels or public systems with confidentiality guarantee and without sanctions
Decree-Law allows drivers to stop trains at serious risks, guarantees confidential channels to report safety problems and strengthens inspection powers. Council of Ministers also creates a figure to support victims of accidents.
Staff with operational safety functions may report risks to rail safety through internal channels or public systems.
In the first of the three days of strike planned in Rodalies, but which extend to the rail sector throughout the country, the Spanish government seeks to satisfy train drivers with a package of urgent measures to strengthen railway safety and social protection for professionals in the sector.
On Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree-Law on urgent measures to strengthen operational safety in rail transport, as well as the social protection of workers in the sector in response to the main trade union demands of the sector, which have gone on strike today generating chaos on some lines in Catalonia and Madrid due to the non-compliance with the minimum services.
The Council of Ministers adopts a decree law with labour measures for railway workers on the first day of strike by Renfe drivers.
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