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 employment tribunal has ruled that an electrician dismissed for gross misconduct had been subject to sex harassment because he was bald.
Emoticons have crept into standard use thanks to Twitter, WhatsApp and the global pandemic. What does this tell us about business communications?
Since December 2021, the EHRC's Race Legal Support Fund has been available to lawyers representing victims of racial discrimination.
Partygate has put the spotlight on internal investigations but are there really any lessons for HR? Meanwhile, suits are increasingly out at interviews…
With Sue Gray's eagerly-anticipated report on Downing Steet parties on the horizon, what should an internal investigation into alleged wrongdoing involve?
A recent Court of Appeal ruling that confirmed UK legislation does not protect striking employees from action short of dismissal has effectively 'given bosses the green light to discipline staff who strike', a union has claimed.
Lessons for HR from events at the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood earlier this week; research into the UK's chattiest towns at work.
Sainsbury's discriminated against a worker with a brain injury who had been accused of groping female staff and using inappropriate language, an employment tribunal has found.
There is no longer a legal requirement in England to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus.
The removal of the...
A worker who was called an ‘old white man’ by a colleague, whose comments eventually led to him being signed...
There has been an increase in enquiries to employment lawyers on managing and potentially dismissing employees who were hired during lockdown and it needs investigating.
Staff at 10 Downing Street felt unable to raise concerns about the behaviours they witnessed at work during the pandemic,...
‘Sue Gray’s report into workplace misconduct has much higher stakes than most disciplinary investigations, but there are some parallels for employers.’
The dismissal of a care worker over a failure to be jabbed was upheld by tribunal despite her ‘religious beliefs‘.
A former Marine Scotland has lost her claim for unfair dismissal and breach of contract after she made inaccurate allegations.
