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
An employee has decided to appeal against a disciplinary sanction that you recently imposed on them because you didn’t “prove the misconduct beyond all reasonable doubt”. Are you actually required to
prove guilt?
Published 13.01.2017
Let’s suppose an employee has exercised their right to appeal against a disciplinary sanction. Having heard their appeal, can you hike the sanction if you consider the initial decision was too
lenient?
Published 26.08.2014
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
When an employee’s grievance is rejected or only partially upheld, you must offer them a right of appeal - if you don’t your procedure will be unfair. Assuming the employee does appeal, who should
hear it?
Published 15.09.2015
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
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
As the Acas Code of Practice states, your employees must be given the right to appeal against disciplinary and grievance decisions. But how long do they have to challenge you about them?
Published 27.06.2014
When an employee is required to attend a disciplinary hearing, they must be given all the evidence against them in advance of it. But what if some evidence is accidentally missed out? Must you hold a
rehearing?
Published 02.09.2015