A B777 BEING TAXING TO ANOTHER GATE BY TECHNICIANS THAT QUESTION LEGAL AND SAFETY CONCERNS WHEN CARRYING COMPANY CLEANING PERSONNEL.

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ON JUL/THU/06 AT APPROX XA00 I WAS ASSIGNED TO MOVE ACFT X FROM INTL TERMINAL X TO TERMINAL Y GATE X FOR THE FLT AB DEP AT ZZZ. I WAS THE R SEAT OPERATOR. PRIOR TO LEAVING TERMINAL X; THE CABIN CLEANING CREW REQUESTED TO REMAIN ON BOARD THE ACFT FOR TAXI TO THE DEP GATE. I AGREED WITH THE L SEAT OPERATOR TO ALLOW THEM TO REMAIN ON BOARD. THIS DECISION WAS BASED ON DATA CONTAINED IN COMPUTER BASED TRAINING COURSE TITLED SAFE ACFT MOVEMENT; AS WELL AS GPM. FOLLOWING THE GUIDELINES OF THE CASE AND THE GPM; THE CLEANING CREW WAS INSTRUCTED TO REMAIN SEATED WITH THEIR SEATBELTS FASTENED. THE ACFT MOVEMENT WAS COMPLETED SAFELY WITH NO EVENTS. UPON REVIEWING THE GPM; COMPANY AND CFR PART 121 THIS MORNING (JUL/MON/06) FOR ADDITIONAL CLARITY ON ACFT MOVEMENT WITH SVC PERSONNEL ON BOARD; SOME SAFETY CONCERNS WERE RAISED IN RELATION TO THE ABOVE EVENT: 1) HAD AN EMER EVENT OCCURRED; SVC PERSONNEL (CABIN CLEANERS; CONTRACT OR COMPANY) ARE NOT FORMALLY TRAINED ON EMER ASSIGNMENTS OR EMER EGRESS OF ANY ACFT FLEET TYPES. 2) TAXI CREW AMT'S ARE NOT REQUIRED/TRAINED TO BRIEF CABIN OCCUPANTS ON EMER EGRESS OF ACFT AND ASSIGNED EMER PROCS. 3) EMER EGRESS OF ACFT AND EMER ASSIGNMENTS ARE NOT CONTAINED IN ANY OF THE AMT TAXI TOW TRAINING FOR FLEET TYPE COURSES X; Y; OR Z; FOR OUR OWN SAFETY OR TO EVEN BRIEF CABIN OCCUPANTS WITH. 4) COMPANY COURSE X AND GPM SEEM TO BE IN CONFLICT WITH GPM SUBSECTION WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW AN AMT TO CONDUCT OPS WITH PAX ON BOARD. 5) NO DEFINITIVE LIST EXISTS THAT IS READILY ACCESSIBLE TO MAINT TAXI CREWS FOR DETERMINATION OF WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO REMAIN ONBOARD AN ACFT DURING MAINT TAXI OPS. 6)EMER EGRESS OF ACFT AND EMER ASSIGNMENT TRAINING EXISTS FOR FLT CREWS; YET AMT TAXI CREWS AND SVC PERSONNEL RECEIVE NONE WHILE OPERATING IN VIRTUALLY THE SAME ENVIRONMENT.