Just need to vent...

LindaS

I spent most of today having meetings with six employees who are being laid off. While I have only been at this company for approx. two years some of the employees who were laid off had 30+ years of service with the company. While this is just a temporary layoff, we all know some of them won't be coming back.

Anyway, after the tears, anger, etc. I got to deal with being informed by a union representative that an employee (I've posted about him before) is refusing a settlement offer regarding a written warning he received for drinking alcoholic beverages at our company Christmas party after being instructed by two management personnel that this would not be allowed. His reponse to our settlement is that he wants to "take it all the way" and will not accept anything less. Our offer was that the warning will remain in his file for six months (instead of the usual year) and if there aren't any further instances of insubordination it will be deemed "inactive".

I know I probably shouldn't be frustrated because he probably doesn't know about the layoffs yet but sometimes the sheer selfishness of some people amazes me...

Parabeagle

Sorry for what you're going through today, Linda. Makes me very glad I don't work for a union company.

mwild31

Sorry about the tough day LindaS. Hang in there!

LeeR

I spent about a year in a unionized facility. Some folks were logical and reasonable and others were so anti-management that they always insisted on taking the smallest issues "all the way". I know the frustration you are feeling. Glad it ain't me.

Don D

Hidden deep inside your post, I see that you caved and dispensed with your written company policy and agreed to his demands that the record of the violation not remain in his file as long as policy would dictate. When you have time, tell us why. That is certainly a win-win for the union who will use that as the standard forevermore.

SDDCHR

I picked up on the same thing that Don just mentioned and would also like to know why you did this?

marc

Since the EE refused to settle, then the consequences of "going all the way" will surely mean the deal is off the table and when you win, the write-up should stay for the year. Is that the way it will work?

Don D

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 01-30-04 AT 11:58AM (CST)[/font][br][br]-sorry, double post-

Crout

A settlement offer for a written warning? Either your evidence was almost non-existent, or someone in Management is in serious need of a backbone.

LindaS

The decision to make this offer to the union was not my idea. The reason we went this route was in the hopes that this would settle the grievance and we wouldn't have to spend alot of time and money fighting it. Not the best solution but sometimes you have to pick your battles. In any event, you are correct that now that the employee has refused the offer, all bets are off and the warning will remain in his file. We'll see where this goes.

Thanks for the support. I've been here since WAYY early this morning trying to soak up as much information as possible from those that were laid off yesterday (one elected to come in today and help us out).