UPS Accidents

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How safe are Britain's roads? update":

UPS TREAT STAFF LIKE CRETINS !! Very interesting,sad how a blue chip company can treat their employees like cretins (which they certainly are not) a member of my family was recently sacked, due to the three strike accident rule!! through no fault of his own. We have to remember a 7.5ton vehicle in country lanes would cause any problems/obstruction, no matter how well he was trained, he pleaded his case for a smaller van, but it fell on deaf ears with the management and nothing ever came of it, except he was sacked on the three strike accident rule!! Pathetic. He had been with the company for four years. Interesting though,how they have bought out TNT and the drivers there are on lower wages FACT ! (as my company receives parcels via TNT and I have asked the drivers about there terms and conditions of employment incl wages, cheeky I know, but hey, dont ask and you never get to know). I wait to see how many other good UPS drivers are sacked in favour of this buy out to SAVE UPS SALARY BILL. In my opinion this is why they are getting rid of the decent staff and especially the ones they would have to pay severance pay too in a redundancy situation !!!



Posted by Anonymous to Mikey v. The World at 22 November 2012 11:54

I'm pretty sure that this was deemed an unfair policy. A driver at Gateshead (I think) challenged this and was re-instated. When we asked for more information and clarity, surprisingly (not) we never received any feedback.