Antoinette Carter on 13 May 2004 at 10:27 said:-
> What could you, or should you have done differently?
Ask what it meant?
Ian W
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> Antoinette Carter
> Sent: 13 May 2004 10:27
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> Subject: Re: Publiction of Sickness Record
>
>
> You're a manager; you see an employee on sick leave leaving a
> leisure centre with a squash racquet in his hand; that person
> has a history of unusual levels of sickness absence and has
> already received verbal and written warnings; and you sack
> them. What could you, or should you have done differently?
>
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> Sent: 13 May 2004 08:02
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> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Publiction of Sickness Record
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> In a message dated 11/05/04 18:12:52 GMT Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>
> > But ultimately, we are not talking about an issue of whether some
> > prima-donna supermodel got caught out fibbing about her cocaine
> > addiction; we're talking about millions of people being
> deprived of a
> > public service on which they rely, and which costs London
> businesses
> > millions of pounds in lost revenue.
>
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> But the press didn't just "catch her out", they went on to
> print sensitive details (obtained from the clinic) about her
> treatment.
>
> In the LU case, they didn't just detail why they sacked the
> man, they went on to give details of previous (unrelated)
> sickness. Many people have absences that affect the public
> in various ways - local government, police, and so on.
> Strikes are called for a variety of reasons - maybe the RMT
> were to blame, rather than the individual.
>
> Perhaps we should now find out the name of the HR manager who
> unfairly sacked him and caused all this disruption in the
> first place, along with details of any other sackings he is
> responsible for.
>
> Ian B
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