New AAW (Attendance at Work policy)

On top of all this, our employer has now tabled a new AAW. It is a bullying managers charter. It’s as though the most unsympathetic employing managers across LUL and TfL have been invited to draw up a wish list of ways to harass staff who are unwell. If you’ve ever wondered why senior management so rarely uphold complaints of bullying by managers, this lays it bare… senior management want their employing managers to behave like that.

• Any sickness over 7 days to be treated as long-term with sickness reviews demanded. At a review you would have no right to representation and would have to discuss a return-to-work plan drawn up by your manager.

• Failing to achieve a return-to-work plan imposed by your manager would be a trigger for formal action.

• Just two items of sickness in a year would lead to formal action.

• You can be put into redeployment at any time when you are sick. Redeployment will give you just 6 weeks (down from 13 weeks now) to find a new role or face medical dismissal.

Pay 2023

LUL has confirmed that their latest 4% offer is not their full and final offer. Further discussions will be taking place at ACAS.

Once again management told us they have no money. Once again, they refused to comment of senior management bonuses. They tell the Standard