Re: Drivers and guards to be sacked.

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

"Richard Hunt" <rhunt@calcaria.co.uk> wrote in message
memo.20000820102047.31965A@calcaria.cix.co.uk">news:memo.20000820102047.31965A@calcaria.cix.co.uk...
> In article <399d582d$0$786$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
> tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au (Tezza) wrote:
>
> > Maybe not, but that's the threat. A driver was stood down on Wednesday
> > for wearing the wrong shoes.
>
> Legitimately. I'm asuming that train crew on that service are issued with
> safety boots/shoes (i.e. steel toecaps and non-slip soles), which they are
> required to wear for safety. Not wearing safety shoes endangers the
> employee's own safety, and might get the employer prosecuted by the health
> and safety authorities.


Drivers aren't required to wear steel caps, just leather uppers. The Driver
in question had been trying for 2 years to be supplied with adequate
footwear. The employer *should've * been prosecuted.

In the meantime thousands of passengers were delayed when he wasn't there
to work his train that was just coming in. Hundreds of dollars was wasted
calling out another Driver the next day to fill in as the stood down Driver
had to make a statement over the ridiculous matter.