Attendance and Discipline

LUL management have surpassed even themselves, sacking a member of station staff using a completely different company's discplinary procedure. They somehow got it into their heads that because the staff member used to work for Silverlink, they could sack her at a hearing convened under Silverlink...

You come face-to-face with a particularly gory one-under, suffer from the trauma, go off sick, and what do management do? Call you on your emergency contact number and try to contact you 13 times in your first five days off! Then summon you to a sickness review when you've not been off sick for 28...

Superb. In a finding that George Orwell would undoubtedly be proud of, Occupational Health has revealed that staff who are sick would feel better being at work and in the company of colleagues than they would staying at home.

Dare we suggest that is because they would rather not be sick?! Oh...

It seems that on Green Park group, management have added an extra stage to the attendance/discipline procedure. Now, you have a 'fact-finding interview' before being sent to an LDI.

What Tubeworker wants to know is: what facts do managers need to find out that they couldn't unearth at the Return To...

Drivers at Bollo House (Acton Town) have had enough of the management regime in their depot and have asked RMT to ballot them for strike action.

The problems have been going on for some time now, and drivers' patience is exhausted. Management have clamped down on sickness and SPADs, and while...

It seems that some managers have got it into their heads that reps should not be allowed to speak at LDIs. Yes, you read that right. You might think that the whole point of a union rep is to speak, to argue the case for the member of staff. But no - according to the GSMs pioneering this, the rep is...

Management's latest wheeze for bullying the sick is the 'rainbow chart'. This device enables them to identify a 'pattern' of sickness even amongst those staff whose attendance is so good that they have not actually triggered the attendance policy.

For instance ... Perhaps you had two days off in...

At Earls Court control centre, management have introduced 'corrective action plans'. A member of staff gets so many 'items' and they are hauled off by a manager to 'agree' and implement a plan.

But there was no consultation with the union, and there is no involvement of reps in the process...

Tubeworker wonders whether duty managers actually read policies before using them to bash staff.

For instance, there is a line in the attendance policy that clearly states that if someone has a year's faultless attendance previous to the items that trigger the policy, then you should not send them...

The light duties team have been sending CSAs to spy on other staff as part of their light duties, such as sending them on trains to listen to drivers' PA's.

Light duties should be a sign that management are showing duty of care to their staff. Sometimes it is used by management to pressurise staff...