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[email protected] · July 22nd 11, 07:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

*From:* Roland Perry
*Date:* Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:37:02 +0100

In message , at
09:02:41 on Fri, 22 Jul 2011, remarked:
One of the few exceptions for not granting special leave would be a
funeral. A driver phoning in to say that they have to wait in
because
somebody is late turing up, a plumber etc. is late finishing, they
have to
pick up their children from school etc. will normally be given
short
shrift and told to "be in on time or you'll be booked"

All very interesting stuff. Thanks. Must be quite a problem for
drivers to see a GP if it's one of those surgeries where you can't
get an appointment (even for non-urgent things) until you try
calling the reception at 8am the same day.

I was talking to someone a week or two ago about an employee who
got into trouble because he took a day off at short notice to move
house (one of those occasions where they didn't know the completion
date until the last minute). The amount of leeway in such things
does seem to vary a lot from one industry to another.
--
Roland Perry

The short notice (depending how short) would have been the problem.
Normally moving house is a day you are allowed to take off if sufficient
notice is given. I think that there is an agreement that this is a paid
day, and is limited to one every X (10?) years.

Roger