Discipline

New and updated

• Disciplinary procedure

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, concerning the employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing to allow the employee to be accompanied.

• Letter rescheduling a disciplinary appeal hearing

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, concerning the employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing to allow the employee to be accompanied.

• Refusal to postpone disciplinary hearing because of unavailable companion led to unfair dismissal

  Date:

  3 September 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Consultant editor Darren Newman looks at a recent decision highlighting the potential danger in proceeding with a disciplinary hearing where the employee's chosen companion is not available - even where the requested postponement falls outside the period allowed for under the statutory right to be accompanied.

• Discipline and dismissal of senior officers in local authorities

  Date:

  20 August 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  This article looks at local authority discipline and dismissal procedures for senior officers, and the involvement of councillors in other disciplinary action.

• Unfair dismissal: Refusal to postpone disciplinary hearing when chosen companion unavailable

  Date:

  15 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing for two weeks to allow the employee's union official to accompany her made her dismissal unfair.

• Dismissal: Successful appeal revives employment contract

  Date:

  9 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that the effect of a contractual right of appeal against dismissal is that a successful appeal revives the contract and extinguishes the original dismissal.

• Misconduct

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Conducting an investigation

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Must an employer disclose notes and witness statements produced during a grievance or disciplinary procedure if an employee requests them?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Conducting disciplinary investigations

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.