In Yekaterinburg, "Gortrans" left conductors without the payments required by law during layoffs.

      Yekaterinburg’s "Gortrans" decided to save money on the lawful procedure for dismissing conductors. Now the transport company is awaiting legal proceedings, the Telegram channel Ural Mash has learned.

      As one of Gortrans’s former employees who filed a suit in court told Ural Mash, conductors were massively dismissed in August. The vehicles were equipped with terminals. More than a hundred people were affected by the cuts.

      "The first rumors started in the spring, but management reassured us: everyone would be transferred to ticket inspectors. In practice, there weren't (as expected) enough positions for everyone. Women without education or experience were offered jobs as mechanics or cleaners. They refused — then they were told to submit resignation letters," the Telegram channel writes.

      Not immediately, but people realized that they were supposed to be dismissed by mutual agreement, with two months' pay paid in advance. Several former Gortrans employees have already filed a lawsuit.

      In the comments under the post, one of Ural Mash’s readers expressed doubt about the "optimization" in the form of cutting conductors.

      "Many people stopped paying, especially for rides of a couple of stops. And some less obvious points:

      — The conductor in the cabin was kind of a moderator, a representative of the state, a mini-authority with some right to resolve conflicts between passengers. Now they're on their own and this will have repercussions.

      — Conductors kept out outright homeless people — from the standpoint of the owner of the cabin. Who will do that now?

      — As a result, among other things, kids have started climbing out of the windows/onto the roofs; with a conductor present they at least felt a bit embarrassed (a little),"

      — listed user "ovragi", items the "rationalizers" might have "forgotten".