Attendance and Discipline

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

"Suitable advice"?!

Tubeworker has noticed a flurry of "suitable advice" being issued by managers to staff. They seem to stick these in your staff file and they ominously resemble disciplinary warnings.

Have management found a new way to turn the screw on us without bothering with the inconvenience of a disciplinary...

Hounded out of His Job

We hear that the Holborn CSA caught on a YouTube video has resigned his job. Disturbingly, we also hear that this was on the advice of his union (TSSA).

Apparently, they have a plan to take an Employment Tribunal case for constructive dismissal. However, that places a lot of faith in a legal system...

No to "Trial by Internet"

The virtual world has got itself into a frenzy about this video, showing a CSA allegedly being rude to a passenger at Holborn station.

BBC London News and the Evening Standard have run the story, BoJo (known for a few outbursts in his time) has chipped in his condemnation, and there is an...

Swine Flu: Phase Two

The bad news is that swine flu has now officially entered its second phase, with the number of cases up by 45% over the last week.

The good news is that the RMT has already got senior management to agree that swine flu cannot be treated as an item in the sickness procedure.

But we have heard...

Another Driver Sacked

Another driver has seen one mistake leave him out of work - this time, Bakerloo driver Kevin Dobinson.

You'd think management could accept that we all make mistakes occasionally, and that if someone puts their hands up to it and has mitigating circumstances, then a warning or re-training would be...

Vic Line strike even more solid

Belatedly, a quick report on last week's Vic line strike, which was even more solid than the last one! None only did - one again - no trains run, but fewer strike-breakers crawled in to work: just three this time.

Management made a sly attempt to disrupt the end of the strike by inventing duties...

Wot No Paid Special Leave?

LUL management's latest ruse to punish staff is to dock your pay if you have a family emergency.

Despite having a policy that employing managers can give you up to three days paid special leave to deal with death or illness of a close relative, management have now decided that if you did not give...

Don't Be Late!

It seems that as well as their attendance clampdown, LUL is also organising a lateness clampdown. At the end of last year, it produced a natty little PowerPoint presentation for managers telling them to interview anyone who is late and initiate dsciplinary charges at the earliest opportunity.

Now...

Another Vic Driver Sacked

We already knew that the disciplinary clampdown was well out of hand, but it is now way beyond a joke. LUL has sacked a Vic Line driver for stealing lost property that he was retrieving!!

Driver Jamie Witchell noticed that a customer was banging on the doors as he departed a station, and realised...

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

London Underground's 'Rainbow' software sounds the alarm whenever it spots a 'pattern' of non-attendance. It is quite bad enough that these 'patterns' are often simply coincidences. But what makes matters worse is that they are also picking up on absences for which you should not get even the hint...

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