MBTA GM ‘Commits’ To No Layoffs Or Furloughs For T Or Commuter Rail

MBTA GM ‘Commits’ To No Layoffs Or Furloughs For T Or Commuter Rail

Furloughs will no longer take place for 40 MBTA commuter rail employees, a shift by the T and commuter rail operator Keolis from earlier plans in the face of increasing pressure from state and federal lawmakers.

Three days after MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said in an interview with WBUR’s Radio Boston that the commuter rail system was “the one place where there have been furloughs,” he wrote in a letter to Congressman Stephen Lynch on Friday that “there will be no layoffs or furloughs made by either the MBTA or Keolis” in the wake of significant funding approved in the American Rescue Plan.

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