Easyjet Redundancies

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53360847

With thousands being made redundant we don't often hear about the criteria for who is losing their job and who isn't. Easyjet are using sickness levels to decide this from the start of the virus. Presume that means from when flights were stopped and not on a rolling yearly basis.

Do you think this is fair or not?

[Bobbisox1]

A friend of mine is waiting to hear, she’s been on the sick with stress ( EasyJet) it’s not the glamorous job once portrayed by British Airways many years ago

[Deskdiary]

Sickness records of pilots is probably a little unfair, as I wouldn’t want a pilot flying me who was under the weather (not that I’d know!).

But...

For most other jobs ‘general absenteeism’ is a good measure and is one of the measures I’ve used and I put a weighting measure against it.

I’m not talking about long-term sick, or people who have, say, a fortnight off for proper flu, I’m talking about the Mondayitis types.

[ummmm]

Loads of construction workers have been sacked for joining the Monday club.

It's survival of the reliable out there at the moment.

[andy-hughes]

A lot of big firms with large workforces factor in sick records when looking to downsize - it can be a reliable indicator of people who are less worth keeping than others, but it has to be applied fairly and reasonably, not simply putting in a 'cut-off point' and sacking everyone below it.

[Hymie]

Early on in my working career, my then employer inserted a clause in their employment terms (posted on notice-boards) which read ‘Any employee arriving late for work more than twice in a month would be considered as being consistently late for work.’ At this some wag had added a rider which read ‘and any employee working hard more than twice in a month would be considered as working consistently hard.’

[tiggerblue10]

Where I work it's 6 days / 3 occasions or more sick absence and you get a warning. Persistent lateness attracts a warning too and I have known of a couple of people whe were sacked because of it.