Mayor ordered public transportation drivers to assist with fare  collection

ArmInfo.  Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan has ordered public transportation drivers to assist with fare collection. He announced this at a working meeting at City Hall on April 6.

Avinyan called the drivers' lack of involvement in this process  unacceptable and emphasized that overtime payments directly depend on  the effectiveness of the collection process. "I want to make this  clear and live on air - there cannot be a situation where we pay our  employees, the drivers, the normal amount of overtime, while they  fail to participate in any work processes, in particular, by failing  to assist with the collection of public transportation fares," the  mayor stated. He also noted that this isn't the fault of the drivers  themselves, but rather an unacceptable approach on the part of the  management of Yerevan Bus CJSC. Addressing the company's director,  Bakur Karapetyan, the mayor recalled that he had been vocal about the  unacceptability of this approach from the very first day.

Karapetyan, in turn, assured that, starting today, drivers have been  briefed on this issue.

Furthermore, Avinyan instructed that financial statements on expenses  for the current year be presented at the next working meeting, as  well as an explanation of the intended purpose of the requested  additional funds.