LTB 1075/10 - Attendance Procedure and Negotiations

[TrueBlueTerrier]

No. 1075/2010
Ref: PTC/MA/jc/415
Date: 6 December 2010







TO ALL POSTAL BRANCHES





Dear Colleague



RE: ATTENDANCE PROCEDURE AND NEGOTIATIONS.



Branches will be aware that one objective of the Business Transformation Agreement was for both Royal Mail and CWU to review HR procedures. Discussions have commenced on the Attendance Procedure and set out below is a joint statement which will also be communicated to all Royal Mail managers informing all employees of how discussions have progressed.



Discussions and negotiations are ongoing and we intend to update branches at every available opportunity.



Any enquiries should be addressed to Ray Ellis’s department, quoting reference PTC/MA/jc/415.
Email address: rellis@cwu.org



Yours sincerely






Ray Ellis,

Assistant Secreta

[brothermagrew]

Draft Joint Comms for Attendance Procedure

A key objective of the Business Transformation Agreement is to improve employee relations. Royal Mail and CWU are working together to review HR procedures, starting with the Attendance Procedure.

Discussions have been positive and constructive, detailed work is now commencing to produce an agreement which:

• Treats all employees with dignity and respect
• Moves away from an approach seen as adversarial with an emphasis on warnings to one which is intended to be genuinely supportive
• Emphasises early supportive action to help avoid absence becoming long term

Royal Mail and CWU believe that establishing a sensible and people focused approach to sick absence is a key part of improving working relations and we are all determined to bring discussions to a conclusion as quickly as possible. Meetings will be taking place over the coming weeks to achieve this. We will communicate progress at the appropriate time as discussions progress.

[Stormproof]

Was there any point in sending that LTB out, hardly informative is it


Edit..Thanks Brother

[stokes11eg]

Same old tat we've had for years! Dignity and respect? I suspect this L.T.B. has been rushed out in response to the rumblings on this board about attendance proceedures etc, and will come to nought!

[Stormproof]

Got a good mind to email Ray Ellis to ask him if I'm going to get sacked when I go back to work next week, after all my injury was due to a AOD, can't see my DOM keeping me on.

[jockstrapp]

Is this the end of stages1,2 and 3 warnings?????????????????

[General Mannerheim]

Emphasises early supportive action to help avoid absence becoming long term

Sorry but if my doctor or specialist says I have a long term condition I expect my union to support my right to be off, NOT to be bullied back to work before my time by Atossers or managers with the Junior Encyclopedia of Medicine as a reference point.

[fishtank]

Changing the attendance procedure is pointless without also changing mindset of the managers who abuse it.
"managers discretion" and "individual circumstances" have to mean more than what mood your in and whether they are one of your favourites.

[Cut Off King]

Is this the end of stages1,2 and 3 warnings?????????????????

Yes it is, its being replaced with just one stage - YOUR FIRED !