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.
The much-maligned laws covering dismissal, grievance and disciplinary procedures are due to change in a couple of years, but in the meantime HR is stuck with them and must tread carefully. Ross Bentley runs through the dos and don'ts to see you safely through.
Controversial regulations meaning dismissals are automatically rendered unlawful by a failure to follow set procedures – the Polkey principle –...
This week’s round-up of HR news including how one in four dismissals in the civil service doesn’t stick; and more...
A total ban on employees accessing Facebook, MySpace or Bebo at work is an “over-reaction”, the TUC has warned.Instead, employers...
HR news including: final salary and defined benefit pension schemes set to make a comeback; and the Argos employee sacked for...
An Argos employee has been sacked following his antics on social networking site Facebook.According to an article in The Sun,...
Most employers have little problem complying with the letter of the law on employee grievances, according to research by Personnel...
Employers have been warned to scrutinise CVs thoroughly when recruiting senior management following the resignation of a leading hotel executive...
Julian Yew looks at the statutory procedures governing disciplinary, dismissal and grievance issues, and some forthcoming changes.
If a member of staff is convicted of a crime or is part of an investigation, how should HR react? Kate Hilpern reports.
Greg Jones, the South Wales Police HR director cleared of rape and assault earlier this year, is reported to be...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is a the centre of a bitter dispute with unions after suggesting that up to...
A Tesco employee suspended from his job during a police investigation into the murders of prostitutes in Suffolk is still...
I find the idea of public disciplinary hearings for police officers totally wrong (Personnel Today, 9 January).
Public discipline exists...
A black chef at a JD Wetherspoon pub in Swindon who claimed he was nicknamed “our little slave” has lost...
