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What is the purpose of a disciplinary interview? What is the difference between an investigatory interview and a disciplinary interview? Who should conduct a disciplinary meeting? Who should be present at a disciplinary interview? Can an employer invite an employee to attend a disciplinary hearing when he or she is on sick leave? Do workers have the right to be accompanied at disciplinary hearings?
Workers have a statutory right to be accompanied to a disciplinary or grievance hearing under s.10 of the Employment Relations Act 1999. For these purposes, s.13 of the Act defines a disciplinary hearing as one that could result in the administration of a formal warning, the taking of some other action (for example suspension without pay, demotion or dismissal), or the confirmation of a warning or some other action. A grievance hearing is one that concerns a complaint in relation to an employer's statutory or common law duty to a worker.
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