\u00a0 \u00a0 He said transport operators faced similar post-Covid challenges around the world and chief among them were staffing shortages. However, he said the UK\u2019s challenges were more pronounced as a result of the decision to leave the European Union. He described this as the \u201cvery toxic combination of Brexit and Covid\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cMany of our drivers used to come from central or eastern European countries and many of them returned home during the pandemic,\u201d Schreyer said. \u201cThen they were not allowed back into the UK anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n The Go-Ahead chief executive explained that bus drivers were not on the list of skilled workers that qualified for a work permit post-Brexit and this needed to change.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a huge challenge. In London, we are missing something like 9% of our drivers, so we are missing 600 people for our London bus business<\/p>\n \u201cEngineers, they are on the list, so we can bring people from all over Europe [to fill those vacancies], but not the bus drivers,\u201d Schreyer noted. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge challenge. In London, we are missing something like 9% of our drivers, so we are missing 600 people for our London bus business.\u201d<\/p>\n Schreyer also criticised the move by many in the industry to offer lucrative sign-on bonuses to recruits who already have a bus driving licence. He was particularly critical of the use of the practice by driver agencies who then hire drivers back to the very companies they were recruited from.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to attract more talent and then retain that talent,\u201d he added. \u201cSo let\u2019s get rid of sign-on bonuses. That\u2019s really what I would like you to see the industry do.\u201d <\/p>\n \u00a0 DON\u2019T MISS OUT \u2013 GET YOUR COPY! \u2013\u00a0click here to subscribe!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Schreyer admits Brexit impact<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Post-Covid recruitment hindered by EU exit \u00a0Schreyer: \u2018We need to attract more talent and then retain that talent\u2019 \u00a0 Go-Ahead Group chief executive Christian Schreyer emphasised the effect Brexit had had on the group\u2019s operations in the UK at last week\u2019s UITP Global Public Transport Summit in Barcelona. He said transport operators faced similar post-Covid challenges around the world and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Schreyer: \u2018We need to attract more talent and then retain that talent\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGo-Ahead Group chief executive Christian Schreyer emphasised the effect Brexit had had on the group\u2019s operations in the UK at last week\u2019s UITP Global Public Transport Summit in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
This story appears inside the latest issue of\u00a0Passenger Transport<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n