Have you got an e-mail address for her employers HR department?
I might put an early application in for her bosses job.

I can only assume he rang to inform her and any paperwork is flying on its way. I thought it odd, I would have expected an 'informal' chat as to how she was doing etc. She was alighting an employers vehicle and slipped on ice.

After Sunday night, I haven't a clue what your on about !!!!!

Was a Disciplinary hearing held?
Was she invited to attend?
Was she been given the right to have a representative?
Was she been given the right to appeal?













I’ve sacked loads

Another offer here if she gets no joy. PM me etc, if you need. I can flag.

I must be on a record week for taking on LA's one way or another!!!

You know me, I am Tory to the bone, but things have to be fair, and this doesn't look like it is.

All I was suggesting that if the accident was at work you could easily put them on the back foot and stave off any action against your wife.

The only contact her manager should have been making is to ask how she is and where they can send the flowers, chocolates and cards, everything else should come through HR.

Oh, I sense a convert!!!!

As a Rovers fan im sure you should know who you need to be talking to !

As said above, make sure its all documented, get the union rep in (she pays her dues, shes entitled to representation regardless)

And also go direct to HR, they will probably not know a thing about this and its some jobsworth typical council type trying to lay the heavy hand down and keep his own clean.

Dig out her contract, get grievance and discilinary guidleines sent to you etc etc

I would ask her to get the request in writing for sure, in fact any half decent company would.

It might be a formal interview, not a formal warning but make sure you are fully aware of what it is.

Would think she had hit a trigger point of either a 10 day or 4 week absense, but it may just be to see what the emplyers can do to help, over 4 weeks they usually refer to occ health

A friend of mine who works for the Home Office has told me on a few occasions that, for whatever reason, any employee who takes more than a certain number of days off sick has to recieve some kind of warning, and have their absence reviewed. This has come about because of union pressure, apparently, as the union felt that 'taking a view' on someone's sickness could effectively equal an imbalance of treatment.

In other words, you could get situations where an employee could be disciplined for taking 'excessive' sickness, whereas another employee with comparable or greater levels of sickness wouldn't be.

It would appear then, that your wife is a victim of a policy created to weed out those who take the Mick, and I'm sure that if there is any common sense to be had, she will be all right, as long as she defends this in the right way, and doesnt get on her high horse about it.

Purely from a 'Devils Advocate' point of view though, could it be that they're suggesting she COULD be at work, if she has - say - a desk job? That said, if she has been signed off sick by her doctor and ordered to stay away from work, then they really can't dispute it.

You might be right, it could be similar to ours at work. She did ring her boss and offer to do something 'lighter' in the office, but she was told that she couldn't, so she is sat at home climbing the walls. Of course, its all 'my fault' when I get home

Unless there is more to it, your wife's boss must be a clown. He or she actually took the time to ring her with news of a formal warning whilst she is absent due to a work related injury?? Worlds gone mad.
She didn't by any chance break her leg kicking the said boss did she?