Originally Posted by LKLND3380
A person calls in... Is this an hour before start time or less than an hour?
Does not matter. Under your point I can't ask the guy why he is not coming into work. Have to have a steward next to me and have to have one driven out to the guys house.
In our building you must call in one hour before start time OR be written up... If a Steward is not present then it can be argued that the hourly did not call in one hour before or not at all...
Thats fine. someone who draws the line where every conversation requires a steward being present will see that I use that steward when I may not have disciplined the guy otherwise.
So again weingarten is fine and I agree with the principles of representation. Going back to the original conversation as you asked the employee did not load any damages therefore he had nothing to be investigated for. Therefore a steward was not required. If the conversation had turned accusatory at any point then the employee would have been within his rights to ask for representation. Once he asks for representation I'm checking his load because he had no need for a steward if he did not load any damages. If I find one then it gets ugly for him. Asking for a steward for all work related conversations will hurt him more then it will help him. There will be no breaks if I have to have a steward everytime I ask him a work related question.
If you find a damage and the steward is present it can be doccumented.
If he signs a paper and then leaves the building one minute before driver start time OR one hour before driver start time, ANYONE can send a tape up down the belt and it be loaded by anyone (preferably an hourly) into the package car.
In my building we have been sent home as early as 7:30AM and Airs arrive at 8:20 or they are running late because of a fire in some other state.
Bottom line is that unless the preloader watched the package car leave the building there is no way they know what may have been loaded onto their cars.
Now if you want to say good morning, ask how the flow is, ask if there are many irregs, ask if they got their paycheck or even talk about the start time... These are all work related but nothing the hourly can get in trouble for.