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.
An HR manager is among four senior staff members at a London school facing disciplinary action for allegedly stealing £1.6m...
With the new Acas code referring to a right to call witnesses and recent cases suggesting that employees may, in...
Yet again the vexed question of whether employees should have legal representation at internal disciplinary hearings has gone before a...
Carlisle City Council’s decision not to allow employees to lodge a grievance against job evaluation scores, which affect levels of...
Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation TrustFactsIn July 2007, Dr Kunal Kulkarni began employment with the Trust as a...
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Latest developments in the agency workers debate
The fight for legal representation at disciplinary meetings...
NHS doctors and dentists will be allowed to have legal representation at internal disciplinary hearings after a landmark decision in...
Employers may care to be more wary about how they handle environmental martinets after a tribunal ruled that a man...
Charity worker David Booker faces an internal investigation today after he was suspended from his job at a Christian hostel...
The Ministry of Defence has admitted that sex offenders who are not jailed can serve in the armed forces.An MoD...
A raft of new employment law regulations have come into force, affecting employers and employees alike.These include the repeal of...
The highly unpopular three-step statutory grievance and disciplinary procedures have officially been scrapped today.Conciliation service Acas has introduced a new...
The TUC has backed a new register which will name and shame bad employers that do not pay fines awarded...
It's time for the latest round of springtime legislation updates. We run through the key legal changes you need to be aware of - from the new Acas code, to increases in sick pay, maternity pay and statutory holiday.
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We hear from Acas chairman Ed Sweeney about next month’s introduction of a new disciplinary...
