RMT is determined to stop London Underground managers mistreating staff who are off sick. You have the right to time off work if injury or ill-health demands it, and management have no right to bully you back to work before you are ready.

Some managers breach the company’s own rules. Contrary to some managers’ views:

• They may not phone you on your emergency contact numbers without your prior agreement.
• If they call you to any meeting when you are off sick, they have to give you reasonable notice and allow you to have a union rep present.

If a manager breaks these rules, tell your RMT rep immediately.

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Management's latest scheme is to use the notion of a ‘pattern’ of absence to interview and discipline staff who have not triggered the attendance policy. Even if you have a good attendance record, a manager might notice that you were off sick at a similar time in different years and haul you in! If this happens to you, make sure you involve your RMT rep.

RMT believes that managers are routinely abusing the notion of a ‘pattern’ to bully staff. We have demanded that guidelines be negotiated to prevent such abuse. Please give your RMT rep your ideas about this, and report to us instances of abuse by your managers.

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LUL wants to introduce even harsher attendance and discipline policies. The existing sickness policy is bad enough, but our first step to defending ourselves is to assert the rights we do have and fight back against managers who seek to deny them.