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Disciplinary Mania
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Date: 1st Sep 2009
Day after day the Union’s Bedford Office receives a never ending stream of members requesting representation at hearings with the Bank. At the end of June 2009, LTU had represented more
members than we did in the whole of 2008, and2008 was itself a record year. It’s only when you look closely at these cases that you realise many of them could be dealt with informally without the involvement of the Union or HR. But it seems that the first reaction of many Line Managers when confronted with a member of staff who has made a mistake is immediately to reach for the Disciplinary Policy.
We don’t blame Line Managers for that reaction because that’s what they have been told to do by
HR but they are implementing a flawed approach that is damaging morale and diverting energies
unprofitably.
Many Line Managers clearly just don’t have the confidence and freedom to act proportionately
and with confidence when it comes to staff issues and that is resulting in unnecessary cases being brought.
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