Discipline

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

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

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with workers' statutory right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter rescheduling disciplinary hearing

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter rescheduling final disciplinary appeal hearing where employer offers more than one level of appeal

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Disciplinary procedure

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter rescheduling disciplinary appeal hearing

  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.

• Date:

  3 September 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

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

  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.

• Date:

  20 August 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Discipline and dismissal of senior officers in local authorities

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

• Date:

  15 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

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

  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.

• Date:

  9 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Dismissal: Successful appeal revives employment contract

  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.