(09 Jan 2022, 7:30 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Thanks for sharing that. A depressing read but excellent outcome from the tribunal. A useful reminder that unions are worse than useless these days, and not to expect reciprocal loyalty from some employers if you are no longer of immediate use to them.This line is the one that gets me. Its in para 71.
Para 82 sums it up for me… for very little benefit to the company they took illegal action which had devastating consequences for someone who had given them 20 years of service (while cooing to the public about their commitment to improving mental health!) Sounds like the company were less than honest in the tribunal too (paras 27 & 85 in particular). And this is how they treat someone who sounds like an outstanding driver with excellence awards etc…
Bearing in mind, how long it takes to train up bus drivers, the tribunal would have thought that the respondent would have wanted to retain him
When there's an ongoing recruitment campaign (that seems as regular as a DFS sale) and both prior to and since the judgement (and publication), you have the organisation going on about not having enough drivers...
This is just one recent example of poor management within the sector.
There's many others in the public domain and there's many other stories which aren't.
The attitude shown is appalling imo and goes quite a way to explaining why there's such a turnover.
Absolutely no forsight whatsoever.