If you are a member of reserve station staff, you get your advance duties, then go on annual leave, then come back from your leave and turn up to work to find out that those duties have been changed, you will know how difficult and frustrating this situation can be.

You may be aware that earlier this year, RMT won for weekend part-timers the right to take your annual leave as a full weekend rather than as the Sunday of one weekend followed by the Saturday of the next.

LUL's Family Leave Guidelines (page 4, papagraph 8) state that: "employees having to deal with the illness or death of a near relative may apply for the discretionary benefit of special leave with pay to cover the situation. Managers may grant up to 3 days' leave with pay."

We are aware that often, managers refuse paid special leave, and sometimes claim that they are 'not allowed' to give it. Show them this quote!

If you work weekends, a week’s annual leave falls on the Sunday of one weekend and the Saturday of the next: a right pain! RMT demanded that this be changed so that one week’s annual leave is one whole weekend. Management agreed.

One part-time Station Supervisor told RMT Platform, “That is great, common sense at last! It is so annoying not being able to appreciate annual leave fully when you get two halves of a weekend.”