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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 Does the new dispute resolution legislation that was introduced on 1 October affect employees with less than one year's service?

Click to show the answer Does a job applicant who wishes to complain of discrimination have to raise a grievance with the employer before bringing a tribunal claim?

Click to show the answer Where an ex-employee raises a grievance after having left the company is the employer obliged to investigate it?

Click to show the answer Can an employer ignore a grievance if a certain period of time has elapsed since the incident giving rise to it?

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 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 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 If an employee being taken through the statutory disciplinary procedure submits a step-one grievance about his or her potential dismissal, is the employer obliged to follow the statutory grievance procedure in relation to this?

Click to show the answer 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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