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Click to show the answer What is the minimum an employer must offer an employee in terms of access to a grievance procedure?

Click to show the answer How many appeal stages are appropriate for a grievance procedure?

Click to show the answer Do workers have the right to be accompanied at a grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer For the purpose of the right to be accompanied how is a disciplinary or grievance hearing defined?

Click to show the answer What is a "reasonable" request by a worker to be accompanied at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Who can be chosen as a companion at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Must an employer permit a 16 or 17 year old to be accompanied by a parent at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Where an employer recognises one union can a worker ask to be accompanied by an official of another union at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Where an employee chooses to be accompanied at a disciplinary or grievance hearing by a union official, is the official required to be qualified or trained in this role?

Click to show the answer Is a fellow worker or trade union official obliged to accept a request to accompany a worker at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Does a worker have to be a union member to request to be accompanied by a trade union official at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer What is the companion's role at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Does a fellow worker have the right to time off to act as a companion at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer What happens if the companion is not available at the time chosen for a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer What redress is available if an employer fails to permit a worker to be accompanied at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

Click to show the answer Where an employee's claim of harassment turns out to be unfounded, can he or she be disciplined for raising a grievance?

Click to show the answer Although the statutory dispute resolution procedures have been repealed are there circumstances in which they still apply?

Click to show the answer What are the effects of the transitional provisions attached to the repeal of the statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures?

Click to show the answer What is the impact of the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" on disciplinary situations?

Click to show the answer Where the statutory grievance procedure still applies, can an employer insist on following the standard grievance procedure where the employee is no longer in employment and wishes the modified procedure to be followed?

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