Australia: Sydney Trains struggling to keep train drivers

By Matt O’Sullivan, WAtoday; May 14, 2018

The state’s passenger rail operators are struggling to retain train drivers, undermining efforts to hire significantly more of them to avoid a repeat of widespread disruptions to services early this year.

Sydney Trains and NSW Trains recruited 139 drivers in the seven months to January but had 83 leave permanently or shift to other internal roles, resulting in a net increase of just 56 in the period, according to figures released to Labor under freedom of information laws.

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