Attendance and Discipline

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

Sick Of It All!

Management are worried that Seven Sisters depot has dropped to the bottom of the sickness league tables.

What kind of a ridiculous concept is a 'sickness league table'anyway?! The implication behind it is that staff exercise choice over whether they go sick; sickness is something that can be...

School's Out!

Management's 'Rainbow' procedure goes from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous, with a favourite 'pattern' being falling sick during the school holidays.

LUL seems to assume that anyone who is off sick ever is obviously swinging the lead, so anyone who goes off sick during the school...

Wacky Warning

In an extraordinary move that would be comical if it were not serious, Central Line trains management have given a 23-week attendance warning to a driver due to retire in less than two weeks time!

What action are they planning to take against him should his attendance deteriorate after he retires...

LDI for the Olympics?

Drivers in some depots have notice that LU are stepping-up their issuing of attendance warnings. Tubeworker wonders whether there is a link with the Olympics? If they can get everyone on a warning, maybe they hope to avoid sickness absence?

Judging by the shortage of drivers at the minute, with...

Take a Break

LU management's latest idea to keep the service running while employing as few people as possible is to squeeze your time in the khazi. Yes, we hear that managers are to create an EIRF every time you take a PNR and are even threatening staff with disciplinary action for taking 'too many'.

We would...

Suddenly Safe

An e mail to all staff from a Station Supervisor voicing safety concerns during the riots was met with LU’s characteristic duty of care. He was told to retract the e mail or face disciplinary action. Tubeworker can just imagine that retraction: ‘Dear all, upon advice from management, I suddenly...

Riot Day Pay?

London Underground management have told staff unable to attend work during the riots that they must take the day as unpaid or annual leave.

If you have to leave for work at 4am but the bottom of your street is closed off, building are set alight and shops smashed up, what are you supposed to do?...

Sacked for Not Grassing?!

LU managmenent's recent company bulletin about the new IT use rules makes for worrying reading:

Re. offensive materials depicting sex or violence

Therefore, employees who receive any such material must not forward it on. If you receive material of this nature, you must immediately delete it and...

Defend Tunde Umanah!

Management have sacked Leytonstone driver Tunde Umanah, after an incident at Woodford where a DTSM deliberately obstructed the doors of Tunde's train.

His workmates are furious at Tunde's sacking, while the DTSM has apparently gone unpunished. Unless Tunde is reinstated, we can expect action ...

Happy Holiday!

LU's aggressive clampdown on attendance continues. There has been a recent rash of managers asking us to take annual leave when we go for hospital operations.

Previously, most managers accepted that operations were not a routine item of sickness. They accepted that operations fell under the...

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