Report: Metro North RTC's Work Schedule

Metro-North rail-traffic control staff has worked 7 days straight for ‘weeks on end’

A shortage of workers has deprived the staff of days off, resulting in a fatigued workforce responsible for ensuring trains don’t run into each other or run over employees along the tracks. The shortage is one of the shocking revelations found in a 75-page transcript of an interview with MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast by the National Transportation Safety Board.

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This is the media not knowing what it's talking about. The RTC's are under HOS regulations mandated by the FRA. Even if the RTC worked 30 days in a row, it can still be within federal guidelines. Dispatch employees are not under the same regulations as train employees.

a RTC(dispatcher) is limited by FRA rules to 9 hours per day and 15 hours rest, according to one of the RTC's.
yes they can work 7 days a week.