Discipline

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• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter inviting employee to attend disciplinary appeal hearing

  A model letter inviting an employee to attend a disciplinary appeal hearing.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Order of proceedings for a disciplinary hearing

  A model order of proceedings for a disciplinary hearing.

• Date:

  27 February 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Investigation into gross misconduct: Court of Appeal decides what is reasonable

  The Court of Appeal has held that it was reasonable for the employer not to carry out a detailed investigation into an employee's explanations for unusually high travel expense claims as the employer had obtained sufficient evidence to decide that the employee's explanations were implausible.

• Date:

  17 February 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Dismissed care worker's employment automatically revived when internal appeal upheld

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that where an internal appeal is successful, the contract of employment is automatically revived with retrospective effect.

• Date:

  5 December 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Coventry University not negligent for bringing disciplinary proceedings

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, a Court of Appeal decision highlights the need for employers to invest time and resources into investigating disciplinary allegations.

• Date:

  1 December 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner and Krishna Santra and Colin Makin are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  25 September 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  NHS trust had no contractual right to increase disciplinary sanction on appeal

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Court of Appeal held that an employer does not have the right to increase a disciplinary sanction on appeal unless it expressly provides for this option in its disciplinary procedure.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can a defamatory comment posted by an employee on their Facebook page be used as evidence in the employee's disciplinary proceedings?

• Date:

  10 July 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Disciplinary and grievance hearings: No statutory requirement for choice of companion to be reasonable

  In Roberts v GB Oils Ltd EAT/0177/13, the EAT held that there is no statutory requirement for a worker's choice of companion at a disciplinary hearing to be reasonable. Provided that the companion fulfils the statutory definition, the employer is not entitled to reject the worker's choice.

• Type:

  Liveflo

  Discipline: Deal with a misconduct issue

  Use this discipline workflow to deal with possible misconduct issues in line with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures".