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Roland Perry · July 22nd 11, 03:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:02:41
on Fri, 22 Jul 2011, remarked:
One of the few exceptions for not granting special leave would be a
funeral. A driver phoning in to say that they have to wait in because
somebody is late turing up, a plumber etc. is late finishing, they have to
pick up their children from school etc. will normally be given short
shrift and told to "be in on time or you'll be booked"

All very interesting stuff. Thanks. Must be quite a problem for drivers
to see a GP if it's one of those surgeries where you can't get an
appointment (even for non-urgent things) until you try calling the
reception at 8am the same day.

I was talking to someone a week or two ago about an employee who got
into trouble because he took a day off at short notice to move house
(one of those occasions where they didn't know the completion date until
the last minute). The amount of leeway in such things does seem to vary
a lot from one industry to another.
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Roland Perry