It's started

[Gibbon]

As you read this Mrs Gibbon will be sacking a public sector worker who has been skiving on the sick for the last 2 years.

[shaunbhoy]

As you read this Mrs Gibbon will be sacking a public sector worker who has been skiving on the sick for the last 2 years.

And so it begins................

[sasguru]

As you read this Mrs Gibbon will be sacking a public sector worker who has been skiving on the sick for the last 2 years.

Prepare for lots of stress. Mrs SG had to do that last year (and this is in an IB). It lasted months, went to tribunal and in the end the bank paid the troublemaker off to avoid any more hassle.

[shaunbhoy]

It lasted months, went to tribunal and in the end the bank paid the troublemaker off to avoid any more hassle.

Yeah, if only they had agreed to your "Gardening Leave" scenario eh?

[Gibbon]

Prepare for lots of stress. Mrs SG had to do that last year (and this is in an IB). It lasted months, went to tribunal and in the end the bank paid the troublemaker off to avoid any more hassle.

Yeah I know, but today is the end of the line as 3 different Occ Hlth have said she can return to work. She's trying to get earlt retd on ill-health. But Mrs Gibbon is a stickler for dotting i's, crossing t's and following the correct procedures. Today is thankfully a formality.

[sasguru]

Yeah, if only they had agreed to your "Gardening Leave" scenario eh?

Tell you what - some days I'm sorely tempted to take that option.
Employment law is so biased towards the feckless and lazy that if one was so inclined and had the brass balls to brazen it out, one could easily manufacture a grievance and walk away with thousands of pounds.
I don't have it in me though - my rather upright parents brought me up with a sense of right and wrong that is totally unsuited to the modern world.

[shaunbhoy]

my rather upright parents brought me up with a sense of right and wrong that is totally unsuited to the modern world.

They were real sticklers for detail. They even threw in a matching intellect.

[Zippy]

And so it begins................

It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind ... the year the Great War came upon us all

[TimberWolf]

It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind ... the year the Great War came upon us all

I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?

[Zippy]

I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?

If yer name's not on the list you ain't docking. Oh - and no trainers.