Attendance and Discipline

Tube employers' policies on sickness, absence and discipline - and our efforts to fight for justice

Seasonal Sickness

Management have this policy that they can require you to produce a medical certificate from day one of sickness in certain circumstance - on public holidays, on strike days, or if you have a poor sickness record.

It's a crap policy. But Charing Cross group management think they can...

The Sickness Inquisition Strikes Again

It seems that management's crusade for 100% attendance has plumbed new depths, as they have taken to carting off staff who are at work doing full duties and subjecting them to medical scrutiny!

Yes, you might think that turning up to work every day and doing everything required of you is enough to...

Staff forced back to work sick

The practice of stopping a persons pay while off sick has to be challenged by our Unions. It is becoming the norm on LUL to be told that your pay is being stopped on the second day of illness even if you have sent in a certificate or phoned in to report yourself sick.

Managers are so obsessed with...

10% Worst Attenders

Management have a new campaign as part of their relentless drive to persecute the sick. They are targeting the '10% worst attenders'. The unlucky tenth could well find their names emblazoned across office walls, together with little icons plotting how they will be poked and prodded back to work or...

East Ham: Unwelcome New Regime

East Ham group's new GSM is busy making himself very unpopular with staff. When he's not having managers turn up unannounced on people's doorsteps, he's disciplining staff when they've done nothing wrong.

Staff are getting mightily peed off about this, and are busy planning the fightback ...

Road Crash? Have A Warning!

Note to Buckhurst Hill group management. If one of your staff has a motorbike crash on the way to work, in uniform, and has to be taken to hospital in an ambulance for emergency treatment, then you should offer them sympathy and support - not an attendance warning. Issuing a warning is against...

Needed: Regime Change

Piccadilly line drivers are getting well naffed off with the regime on the line following the recent-ish arrival of a new performance manager.

One driver's employment was terminated after less than two months off sick. Another was sacked - upheld on appeal - following a driving error which was...

Knock, knock ... Who's there?!

Imagine being off sick, there's a knock on your door and ... it's a manager! That's what happened to a member of station staff on the Bakerloo centre group.

'Home visits' are supposed to happen only under certain conditions - the option of meeting at work instead, adequate notice, and the right to...

Can We "Live With" This Sick System?!

RMT's latest Official Circular copies to members a letter from the union to LUL management on various industrial relations issues. In amongst comments on later running, redeployment policy and other issues, there lies a rather alarming statement about the Attendance Policy ... "Even though we have...

Tube Worker: Do Not Feed

LUL management seem to think that their authority extends way beyond the Tube. Now they reckon that as well as telling us what to do, they can even tell doctors what to do! How's that for multi-functional?!

Hence the neat little card they are issuing to us all. We are supposed to show it to any...

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