A Sick Proposal

Posted in Tubeworker's blog on ,

If you followed the links in management's report of the latest Company Council meeting, you may have noticed that the company proposes blocking staff from transfer or promotion if you have a warning.

Given that managers chuck around attendance warnings like confetti, this will mean hundreds of staff frozen where they are at any time. this will be miserable for us: be unlucky enough to get sick twice in six months, and that's your chance to advance your career - or just to work nearer your home or at a workplace you prefer - put on hold for half a year.

So why are management doing this? It's a double bonus for them: it's yet more pressure to come to work when you're sick, and it will help them to slow down movements, keep posts vacant and hence cut jobs.

Management's own justification for this move is very telling: the document show that they hope it will lead to staff taking warnings more seriously. It's an admission that disciplinary warnings - perhaps especially those for attendance - are a joke among the workforce. If management want us to take warnings seriously, Tubeworker has a suggestion: stop disciplining people for the non-crime of being sick.

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