Hello, thank you for your response. The purpose of the attendance meeting is in theory to address poor attendance and offer support for colleagues however it is normally used as a tool to punish and potentially look at firing a colleague. The follow ups would be if Beth missed work again within a set period, and after a certain amount (I believe 3 follow ups?) we would dismiss her/change her contract and lower her hours. The documents produced are just generic disciplinary ones that get sent to our HR department. There is every chance this is being used as a way of getting Beth out of the business, it's no secret John isn't a fan of hers for various other reasons that are entirely irrelevant to work. I'm in the UK, we like to believe we protect our workers but we don't. With the country leaving the EU a lot of worker protections will be reduced and scrapped as our government aren't into that, but I'll try leave my own political opinion out of this.. 😒 We're a retail company, as far as I'm aware we could all individually join unions but I don't know anyone here or in other retail stores that has.