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 Work interview? We can't help but suspect that this 'fact-finding interview' is actually the disciplinary hearing in disguise, and that the LDI will just rubber-stamp the decision made by the manager at the fact-finding.
Could this be something to do with the fact that LUL denies you the right to a union rep at the fact-finding, but has to allow you one at the LDI? Could be ...