Disciplinary And Grievance Procedures: Decrypting the Acas code

Victoria Albon and Michael Bronstein analyse two recent EAT decisions which appear to give the green light to employers to ignore the Acas code when dealing with certain types of dismissal ‘The best advice to employers would be to continue to follow the code for any prospective SOSR dismissal where there is some element of …
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Discipline And Grievance: A substantial issue

The EAT has revisited the vexed question of whether the Acas Code of Practice applies to dismissals for ‘some other substantial reason’, write Sarah Lamont and James Gutteridge ‘The question of whether a dismissal is caught by the Code is significant when an employment tribunal makes a finding of unfair dismissal and then turns its …
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