UPS & TUC grievance procedure

Your employer should arrange a meeting at a reasonable time and place to discuss your grievance and inform you of this in writing. (UPS failed to do this)

After the meeting, your employer should write to you, telling you what they have decided to do about your grievance. The letter should inform you of your right to appeal. (UPS failed to do this)

Your employer should arrange a further meeting to discuss your appeal. (No appeal offered therefore, UPS failed to do this) The meeting should be conducted by a different person who is more senior than the person who conducted your disciplinary hearing, for example, a company director or group manager. This may not be possible in smaller workplaces where there may be only one owner-manager.

After the appeal meeting, your employer should write and inform you of their final decision. If you're still not happy with your employer’s decision, you may want to think about other ways of sorting out your problems with your employer.

Note it says after the appeal meeting. 

If you have exhausted your employer’s formal proceedings but remain unhappy with the decision or action taken, you may wish to pursue a claim in an employment tribunal.

At this point you would start looking at other action.......but it's too late.

There's a very large loophole 

as you well know Roger.

Legal...Yes

Moral and Ethical...No

Nice move

Ummah Welfare Trust

Passed one of their shops the other day and wondered what they did

The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam said, ‘The believers, in their love, mutual kindness, and close ties, are like one body; when any part complains, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever.’ - Muslim

Ummah Welfare Trust is a UK-based international relief and development charity established in 2001. Inspired by the Islamic teachings of empathy, generosity and selflessness, the trust aims to alleviate poverty and suffering across the world.

The rights of those who are neglected and oppressed are fulfilled by providing sustainable development solutions relating to shelter, education, health, and spiritual wellbeing.

This is achieved by:

• Providing emergency relief, such as food and medical aid, to victims of conflict and natural disasters.
• Providing clean potable water by constructing tube wells and hand pumps and trucking water to needy areas.
• Sponsoring orphans and widows and ensuring their rights are fulfilled.
• Reconstructing and maintaining homes, masjids, orphanages and schools.
• Establishing medical and rehabilitation clinics, especially for the treatment of women and children.
• Implementing income generation projects to help victims break their dependence on hand-outs.

The whole body responds

For Sale

1 Church

Slightly used

As the number of Congregationalists in Dewsbury increased, another chapel was needed. The large numbers of people who walked down from Earlsheaton felt they had first claim to a new building, so once again the subscription lists were opened and plans were made.

On 21st January 1861 Mr. J Hogg of Halifax, the architect, invited scaled tenders for the building of the new chapel and school. The foundation stone was laid on 1^st April 1861 by Mr. John Crossley of Halifax who was a friend of Mr. Hogg, and who had recommended him as architect. He was well known in the district for his Christian sympathy and liberality.

For the stone laying, a procession formed at 2.00pm outside Ebenezer and marched up the hill for the ceremony, after which they returned, and between 400 and 500 people sat down to tea.
The estimated cost was £3500 for the chapel and school rooms. The final cost was £6425.15.5d. The chapel would seat 740 people, and the school rooms would take 400 children. It was opened on 24^th September 1862 and was called 'Highfield'.

Note to UPS - I want to buy it and give it back to the church

(Something for you to think about)

Constructive dismissal - Advice

It is currently UPS 1-0 Mikey

Using a clever sleight of hand, UPS very deviously played the game.

If you follow grievance procedures, you would expect to have, a grievance hearing, a verdict and then a right to appeal.

In theory then, you cannot go to a tribunal before you have appealed. If you rather cunningly fail to follow the guidelines ( what UPS be unethical and immoral?) you can slide past the 3 month period for Constructive Dismissal claims. This period is pretty rigid, even though the Tribunal accepted my claim.

Clever, innit

Although tagged with the UPS fraud label, it appears to not to be illegal.

Watch this space......

From Simon Reevell MP

Dear Mike,
Thank you for your email.
It is important that people don't let this happen. Whatever the limit, a company could still drag out their enquiry so that it goes over the time during which the employee can apply to the employment tribunal.
It is important that everyone is aware of the three month limit. One solution would be to ensure that there is more publicity about the limit. I am sorry to hear that a delay was used in your case.
Kind regards,
Simon

It would be rude not to follow this up with him, just waiting for his reply....& that of ACAS, who's guidlines UPS failed to follow

Dewsbury Cricket

Whilst doing some research I came across this website.

Shows I'm getting old, I played against quite a few of these clubs whilst playing for

Crossbank Methodists

Former cricket clubs

And the best named cricket club ever

Harry Lime (Harry Lime was the Third Man)

Harry Lime also used to have the best teas, see article

Dead Nobodies 13

A few more comments on the legend that is Bert & the Dead Nobodies.

Buying Deep Purple aged 6 or 7



The Olympic section reminded me of this

Wife - Who's that?

Me - Kenneth Brannagh

Wife - Who's he?

Me - Wallander, we watched it the other night

Wife - No it isn't, he's got different coloured hair

Of course, she was right. It can't have been Kenneth Brannagh.

So I rang him up, he denied he was Wallander or Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Just proves how wrong I can be

What was it? Compulsive Liar

The Olympic special, even without the pictures always makes me smile when the Queen & Bond sequence comes on. Did somebody say she doesn't have a sense of humour?

Longcauseway

Notes from last Sunday's service, a paralympic special

Battered and broken body

Bears the scars, Mental & Physical scars

Later I watched Evan Almighty, never seen it before. Full of messages for me.

And a message for everyone.

The ARK

Acts of
Random
Kindness


Plot
Newly elected to Congress, former local television news reporter Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) leaves his hometown of Buffalo, New York and moves to the fictional town of Prestige Crest, Virginia, where his campaign promise to "change the world" is ridiculed by some, but Evan remains optimistic about his new position at the beginning of the film. On the first day on his job, Evan is given a spacious office and is invited to co-sponsor a bill with Congressman Chuck Long (John Goodman), something rare for a first-timer. His family is happy, but due to the change in their situation to the move when Evan's wife, Joan (Lauren Graham) prays that Evan will have a greater sense of togetherness. Everything seems to be going well for Evan. Soon after Evan's election to Congress, strange things start to happen in his household:

1. Evan's alarm clock repeatedly goes off at 6:14 A.M., despite being set for a different time every night.
2. Large quantities of ancient tools and wood are delivered to Evan's house daily without explanation.
3. Animals follow Evan without any apparent reason (with birds even getting into his office through the window).
4. Evan grows a beard that is restored wholly every time he shaves.
5. Eight vacant lots in Prestige Crest are purchased in Evan's name.
6. A mysterious company named GO-4-WOOD delivers a shipment of lumber that Evan did not order.
7. The number "614" follows Evan everywhere he goes.

Evan soon learns that 614 refers to the verse in the Book of Genesis, where God (Morgan Freeman) instructs Noah to build an Ark in preparation for a flood. God appears to Evan and cordially insisting that Evan should build an Ark as well. Although Evan resists, God follows him using different guises and convinces Evan to build the Ark. Joan, concerned about his behavior, believes that Evan is having a mid-life crisis. Without Joan's support, Evan enlists his three sons, Dylan, Jordan, and Ryan (Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, and Jimmy Bennett) to build the Ark. Reappearing, God tells Evan the flood will come on September 22 at midday.

 

The Ark used for filming was located in Crozet, Virginia.

 

Animals continue to follow Evan around, getting increasingly annoying as time passes. At first, Long is unimpressed, and allows this behavior to occur, but warns Evan that he will not want any more animal surprises. Unfortunately, the animals follow Evan to Congress numerous times, despite his efforts to detain them. This compels Evan to confess Long, other Congressmen, and the television cameras broadcasting the meeting is that the reason for the animals, strange behavior, robe, and beard is because of God convincing Evan to build the Ark. Humiliating both Congress and the controversial Public Land Act bill that Long is attempting to pass, Evan is temporarily suspended from Congress and removed from Long's bill. As security guards kicks Evan out of Congress, some birds poop on Long's face upon Evan's departure. Joan becomes angry and disappointed on Evan's behavior and leaves Evan alone because she believes he is insane. Evan does not let this stop himself and continues to build the Ark alone, gaining international notice and public ridicule. Meanwhile, God appears to Joan, disguised as a waiter at a diner with his name tag "Al Mighty". In this disguise, God tells Joan that he believes himself and does not give things, but only the opportunity by which to obtain things, and gives an example of family togetherness. Having a revelation, Joan returns to Evan with newfound faith to finish the Ark together. Meanwhile, Evan is informed by his three congressional colleagues, Rita, Marty, and Eugene (Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, and Jonah Hill) that Long has unexpectedly given an approval to build a dam near Prestige Crest and has cut corners in building codes in doing so.
On September 22, Evan loads hundreds of animals onto the newly finished Ark in front of hundreds of spectators and live news crews, and invites the crowd to join them, but is made fun of. However, the police arrive in Prestige Crest with a wrecking ball and attempt to destroy the Ark because of its violation of numerous building codes within the town. Noon arrives, and minutes pass with no sign of rain, provoking spectator scorn. A short downburst of rain does come, but it is short-lived. Joan asks Evan to leave the Ark, explaining that Evan has built it and succeeded in his mission; but at this moment, Evan sees Long's dam burst from the distance. With the water from the dam rushing towards them, all of the spectators, reporters, and policemen immediately seek refuge in the Ark, which rides the flood through the streets and historical landmarks of Washington, D.C.. The Ark eventually reaches its final destination in front of the Capitol, where other Congressmen are greeted by the Ark by crashing into the side of the structure. Long, who is outraged that the flood did really happen earlier, is told by Evan that the flood was caused by his defective dam, but Long did not believe this, and tells Evan already that this would not happen again. Those events entice Evan and other Congressmen to turn against Long. While Congress is investigating Long about his dam, Evan celebrates the events by going on a hiking trip along with Joan, three sons, and his newly adopted dog, where God reappears and tells Evan that the way to change the world is by doing one Act of Random Kindness (ARK) at a time. The film ends when Evan and God doing a happy dance together before God disappears, leaving Evan, Joan, and three sons behind

Ryanair continued

Me Thinks the reports must have had some accuracy

And the next news was the imposition of a 4500 euro fine on Ryanair for breaching Spanish air safety laws!

UPS & Ryanair

What? Safety issues at Ryanair


Report from Murcia Today

If the stats are correct it's worrying

Is Michael O'Leary related to D. Scott Davis?

Does it actually say the reports are false?

UPS & Hillsborough

Listening to the reports over the last couple of days, I could help but notice the number of words that I could use from the Hillsborough tragedy.

Failures of leadership
Completely unjust
Despicable untruths
Somebody made some terrible decisions
Broken the law
Perverting the course of Justice
Grossly negligent
Conspiracy
False, inaccurate, wrong
Culture of Impunity
Culture of malpractice endemic
Cover Up
Revelations
Close a blind eye
Corrupt organisation

You can decide which fit