A disciplinary procedure and grievance procedure permit employers to deal fairly and consistently with employee misconduct and complaints from employees about the workplace.
The “Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures” provides employers with the principles for handling workplace disciplinaries and grievances. Employment tribunals will take the code into account when considering relevant cases, with the possibility of a 25% adjustment in any compensation awarded.
A police officer has been banned from every police force in the UK after he admitted to stealing breakfasts from...
Leeds Teaching hospital case casts fresh light on organisations vulnerability to discriminatory decisions.
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Former Home Office civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam claims he was constructively dismissed from his role after accusing Patel of bullying.
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Australian BP employee wins on appeal after mocking pay negotiations with well known Hitler meme from the film Downfall.
What steps should employers take to manage the coronavirus outbreak?
At the start of the new year, employers have been...
A Timpson employee who threatened to “shoot” a colleague was unfairly dismissed because of the way the company handled the...
Sexual misconduct complaints and cases rise sharply as #MeToo wields influence.
An NHS trust requested fingerprints in an attempt to identify a whistleblower...
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Should employers give employees the right to be accompanied to meetings under a redundancy procedure?
Such a meeting could ultimately...
A group of MPs is to scrutinise the police conduct and disciplinary system and investigate whether wider reforms are needed...
