THE following are extracts the secret BL management briefing:
The BL Ltd Board has decided that at the propriate time all BL Lto Companies will seek Regain the right to dismiss employee summarily for theft or other forms misconduct) and refuse re-engagement to an employee so dismissed.
• Introduce into all contracts of employment consent personal The decision to summarily of suspected crimina COCA will future be based upon babilities as deduced by manusement Investiga tion, ie not depend on the decision of a court...
Discipline A BL Ltd personnel policy has been prepared discipline which modifies previous policy siaiemeriis... It requires, among others that.
to avoid involve ment of the police unless it has been suspected that a serious criminal act has been committed.
to be taken (whenever possible) before calling in the police...
BL companies to:
that security forces are adequately manned, trained, and equipped, and that are and laid out so that security forces may carry out and record regular searches of male and female persons and belongings, and of employees visitors, company, and production vehicles • Rebuild plant ex.
its and entrances necessary to permit searches to be carried out.
• Improve the training of foremen and lin managers in security and disciplinary matters...
Note: Courts require the case against a persor reasonable doubt before proved De vone guilt is recognised This is a significantly more stringent test than Lid policy sets, dismissal will be actioned when 'the balance of probabilities suggests that employee has committed a criminal act or another gross misconEmployers relations implications: Implementation of the new policy will generate conflict. This is because both 'ac. tivists! unlu moderates employee representatives will have genuine reservations regarding an initiative by the company to revise existing disciplinary practices and employee contracts..
The possibility of industrial action following the implementation the new policy... cannot be discounted. Search If introduced on gradual basis it is pro bable that an increased intensity of non-personal search would be obtained without generating conflict, though the risk a challenge to the company's legal right to take such action must also increase. Personal search is, however, highly emotive issue. An initiative to introduce personal search into the company will be without risk.
Speakers include Joe Ashton MP, and Bill Maddocks, secretary of the Textiles Union.
Called by Huddersfield Labour Party and Trades Counci
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Demonstrate against unemployment Huddersfield, 31 Jan at 11am Assemble at Beck Road and Cambridge Street.