You need to impose a disciplinary sanction but can’t decide what would be appropriate. Someone has suggested that an HR advisor should be asked for their opinion. Why is this a bad idea?
Published 02.10.2015
Following an allegation of serious misconduct, an employee is under police investigation. Should you press ahead with your own disciplinary action or postpone it? What does the Employment Appeal
Tribunal say?
Published 19.11.2010
Where you impose a disciplinary sanction on an employee, you must always offer them a right of appeal. In the event the employee decides to challenge your decision, how long do they have to appeal
against your disciplinary sanction?
Published 03.06.2021
You’re considering dismissing an employee who has a live written warning on file. However, he didn’t exercise his right of appeal during those earlier proceedings. Does that mean you can’t take it
into account now?
Published 21.10.2011
In a recent case, the employee successfully argued that the employer needed his express consent to substitute an earlier dismissal decision for a final written warning. Is this the law or did the
employer do something wrong?
Published 07.02.2013
If an employee appeals against a disciplinary sanction, you have to set up an appeal hearing. But, what if you decide that the original sanction was actually too lenient? Can you increase it
following the appeal hearing?
Published 05.04.2007
An employee who was found to have stored obscene material on his employer’s cloud storage account has claimed unfair dismissal and been awarded over £53,000. Where did the employer in this case go
wrong?
Published 10.05.2019
In addition to written warnings and dismissal, it’s possible to impose a demotion on an employee by way of disciplinary sanction. However, employers have no right to do this automatically. So what
must you always have in place first?
Published 16.11.2012
Following a disciplinary hearing, further negative information has come to light about the employee. According to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, can it be taken into account when determining the
appropriate sanction?
Published 01.02.2016