Grievances

New and updated

• Updated Acas discipline and grievance guide: What's new for employers?

  Date:

  4 March 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  In February 2019, Acas made changes to its guide on discipline and grievances, which complements the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures". We set out the key updates, in particular the amended guidance on workers seeking to postpone a disciplinary hearing because their preferred companion is unavailable.

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

  Type:

  How to

  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.

• What happens if the companion is not available at the time chosen for a disciplinary or grievance hearing?

  Type:

  FAQs

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Grievances

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

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

• Is an employer obliged to provide notes on an investigation into a grievance to the employee who raised the grievance?

  Type:

  FAQs

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Letter inviting an employee to an investigatory meeting regarding another employee's grievance

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• Letter to an external witness requesting a witness statement regarding an internal grievance

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Record of grievance hearing

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.