Re: Drivers and guards to be sacked.

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> > "Sam Eades" <eadess@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > > I think that it is a good idea "encouraging" drivers and guards
> (hopefully
> > > station staff as well) to wear full uniform.
> >
> > By the threat of sacking them?
>
> If they will not comply with lawful directions from their managers, then
> yes.

Ludicrous. It'll just waste hundreds of thousands of dollars as each person
tacks them to the appeals board and gets re-instated.



> > Yes, there are Driver's and guards who need a kick up the bum about
their
> > dress standards and (lack of)hygiene, but sacking people and depriving
> them
> > of their livelihoods because they won't wear a tie or haven't been
issued
> > with the correct uniform is nothing short of ludicrous. It's like going
> back
> > to 19th century England.
>
> If they haven't been issued it then you can't really blame the employee.

But they do. That's their mentality.

> But
> management are entitled to determine what their staff will wear and how
> their staff will present themselves, and if an employee refuses to wear
that
> uniform, then he or she has noone to blame for their dismissal but
> themselves.


And to think we're only 4 and a half months away from the 21st century.