Bromley trade unions at war with 'nasty little Tories' (From This Is Local London)

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  goldenbroomboy wrote:
  

  PaulErith wrote: Brilliant quote in this article, "If people aren’t performing then are capability processes for that, you should not attack their standard of living .” What a load of rubbish that just sums up the Union's way of thinking. He's moaning that their standard of living is cut. Well they should think themselves lucky. As far as I'm concerned, if people aren't performing then sod the 'capability processes', sack them. Where I work, if you're not performing then you're out and rightly so!

  What do you mean "should think themselves lucky"? Do you think they should be glad that they are still alive? There are procedures in place in most companies to deal with underperforming staff. Yes in sales it's pretty clear cut, you either make the money or you don't, but not everybody works in sales. How do you calibrate good customer services? or recovery of debt? If somebody has no money, you can threaten to blow their knees off, it will not make any difference. I don't know where you work, but in most companies it costs time and money to train staff, so sacking people is not something that a responsible company will do willy nilly. And you seem to have not heard of industrial tribunals, which are not cheap for companies who fire staff incorrectly.

  The point is that you are employed to do a job, and are paid money to do so. It is morally wrong to think that you can turn up, under-perform and still get a pay rise. That's basically what the union guy is saying here. I'm not saying that as a blanket statement, under performing staff should be sacked. If they are working hard and need help in improving their performance, I'm all for that. In fact I've stuck my neck out to save someone who fitted into this category. However, if they're lazy and don't bother, then yes they definitely should be dismissed/performanc
  e managed out of the company. In either case, there is no way that they can justify a pay rise or bonus.
  I think it's fairly obvious as to what I mean by 'should count themselves lucky'! There's lots of people out of work, and yet someone is in a job, under performing, and has the nerve to complain that they've not had a pay rise."
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