She must go on leave and I won't hear any excuses!
So this happened a few years ago. I was a union delegate at a large firm. We had a manager called <PERSON> (I've written about her before on this subreddit) who was appointed to her role by a director of the company. Let's call the director her "uncle". <PERSON> wasn't very clever. She hadn't finished high school and previously worked as a receptionist. She once told me 40 was half of 100.
<PERSON> is struggling in her job and basically does nothing. Her desk is a mess of paperwork. She also looks after all the small departments like records, security, stores etc. If anyone takes on <PERSON>, the director steps in and <PERSON> gets a get out of jail card. There were a few occasions when <PERSON> got yelled at by a manger for making costly mistakes and <PERSON> was put on stress leave and manager got a warning.
One of paralegals <PERSON> from records comes to me to say she thinks Shes in trouble. <PERSON> recently had six weeks leave. She was forced on leave due to having too much annual leave. 329
Once you have more than six weeks you are forced to go on leave until you have no more than two weeks. <PERSON> tells me that HR and <PERSON> enforced her on leave and she submitted a paper leave form the same day <PERSON> was put on stress leave. <PERSON> went on leave came back the same day as <PERSON>. <PERSON>'s leave wasn't. docked. She just got paid as per regular.
While <PERSON> was away they replaced her with <PERSON> who found <PERSON> hadn't really any work for 7 months. I found <PERSON> and asked casually about what happened. She told me on day one she threw all the paperwork out and started over again.
So I attended a meeting with <PERSON>, <PERSON> and HR knowing there isn't a record of <PERSON>'s leave. <PERSON> starts the meeting on a verbal rampage about not doing as she told <PERSON> to do. <PERSON> needs to go on leave now or else and she doesn't want to hear excuses. I interject at this point and point out to HR that <PERSON> behavior is unacceptable, but we agree ( que MC) as <PERSON> has over 8 weeks leave now, she will go on leave effective tomorrow. <PERSON> submits a leave form to <PERSON>, and we leave the meeting. <PERSON> leave is reduced on her pay slip this time. No one questioned a thing. 329