The executive director of the Independent School Bus Operators Association says the province's new minimum wage laws will create a problem for the association.
Roger Caranci says they believe the drivers should make more money. But the challenge for them is they're locked into contracts that don't provide the extra money for them to pay their drivers $15/hr.
Caranci says they need extra money to comply with provincial minimum wage laws, but they get their funding from a consortia that are provided money by the school boards who get their financing from the Ministry of Education, or the province.
Caranci says they're currently negotiating with the government to see if something can be worked out.
According to Caranci, "We have always said our drivers should be paid more. The only thing is we're locked into contracts that don't give us more money to pay those drivers. So it's a very difficult thing for us to do... pay drivers more when the money is not there in the contract."
