They are employed by the bus company, which makes them employees.
A company is required to carry workman's compensation insurance on subcontractors. This is regardless of the number of employees a subcontractor employs.
employees clients partners subcontractors the wider public and the environmrnt
The drivers have remote key to open the bus door even if they dont have any key at all.
bus
yes bus driver can they control the students when they are riding the bus drivers bus
contractors
It depends on what kind of bus company it is, school bus drivers usually drive the same bus, other public transit bus drivers like the Coach/Greyhound bus drivers do switch buses at a certain time.
No, never. Employers hire only EMPLOYEES. Contractors and their subcontractors are not employees and are not hired. I engage a contractor by signing a contract, not by hiring her.
Why wer bus drivers in the days were so mean to blacks?
Texas is the only voluntary Comp state. But employers remain liable for the workers' injuries AND should opt out correctly - according to the state rules, filing their decision with the state and posting the proper notice to employees and to subcontractors who lack coverage. Why subcontractors who lack coverage? Because employers are liable to them too. Employers in all states need to realize they remain liable if they don't have coverage, that their employees and their employees' families can sue them - and in most states, subcontractors and their families can sue too.
Chicago Transit Authority pays their bus drivers about $28 per hour. They are the third highest paid bus drivers in the nation.
No