Attendance and Discipline

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

Unfairly Sacked Driver Reinstated!

A sustained union campaign, including a strike ballot amongst Piccadilly Line drivers, has secured the reinstatement of a sacked worker.

The driver was sacked for allegedly answering his phone while in the cab, even though witnesses attest that he handed over control of the train before doing so...

Reinstatement now!

A Piccadilly Line driver has been sacked because he answered his phone in a stationary train in the depot. He secured his train and left the cab before doing so.

His workmates are preparing to ballot, and his union (RMT) has been building the campaign, with local activists putting out regular...

The Managers Of The Future?

New “Area Managers” on stations have been throwing their weight around across the combine, with overbearing micro-management of performance; authoritarian approaches to attendance and discipline; termination of probationers, and more.

Undoubtedly this is the future face of LU management style. Or...

Med Cert? Leave it Out!

Tube workers who are sick while on annual leave have been shocked to find out that management are demanding medical certificates even for the first seven days of sickness. Excuse us, we thought we were allowed to self-certify for the first week.

Apparently, there is a new policy that doctor's notes...

Defend Glen Hart!

After LU abused its own procedures to sack Alex McGuigan and Noel Roberts (click here to read about those cases), it has now stood down Station Supervisor Glen Hart for following the rulebook and closing his station when it fell below minimum staffing numbers.

Glen was taking part in a union...

Carnival spirit?

Notting Hill Carnival weekend is upon us, and LU workers are looking forward to helping make one London's most important cultural institutions a success.

Big events like Carnival place extra demands on the Tube, and naturally that means hard work for us staff, especially SRT staff who'll be...

A Sick Proposal

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...

Over the Rainbow?

Remember Rainbow? The attendance management system LU invokes if it has a problem with your attendance……even if you haven’t fallen foul of LU’s strict attendance standard. Rainbow looks for ‘patterns’ of non-attendance….and classifies them in colours (like a rainbow...how sweet!), e.g. if you’re...

Working From Home

London Underground have suddenly become sympathetic and understanding if you can't get to work through sickness.

But only if you're a manager!

One Duty Station Manager was recently told he could 'work from home' instead of going sick.

If we're so sick we need to stay at home, we get a 26 week...

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