Staff procedures: Create or update a disciplinary policy and procedure

Pinsent Masons | Employment Law Journal | December 2018/January 2019 #196
In the second part of our series, Diane Nicol and Lesley Finlayson look at how to refresh an organisation’s disciplinary procedure in light of recent case law ‘While the Acas code is not legally binding, employment tribunals are obliged to take any provisions relevant to the case into account in their decision-making.’ Disciplinary procedures often …

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Right to be accompanied: Dealing with requests to postpone a disciplinary hearing

Pinsent Masons | Employment Law Journal | October 2018 #194
An EAT ruling has made it harder for employers to refuse to delay a disciplinary or grievance hearing because the employee’s chosen companion is unavailable, warns Rob Childe ‘The impact on Ms Smith of not being able to attend with her chosen representative to put forward her side of the story was far greater than …

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