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’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
Where an employee’s grievance is “rejected” or “partially upheld”, they must be given a right of appeal. Can the same person who heard the initial grievance consider and determine the employee’s
grievance appeal?
Published 19.10.2023
If an employee raises a formal grievance and you subsequently reject it either in part or in full, they have the statutory right to appeal. Assuming they go down this route, what should you always
ensure happens?
Published 05.11.2013
An employee has unexpectedly raised a grievance. The trouble is you’re really busy because of other business needs and are struggling to find time to deal with it. How long do you have to respond?
Published 04.12.2018
An employee has just presented you with a written grievance. However, you suspect from the content that it’s been fabricated purely to get somebody else into trouble. Are you still obliged to
investigate it?
Published 01.02.2016
You’ve just received a written grievance from a former employee who left a few weeks ago. Are you legally obliged to deal with their complaint under your grievance procedure or not?
Published 14.04.2016
If an employee raises a grievance, you must investigate it fully, come to a balanced, reasoned conclusion and then put your decision to them in writing. At this point, what should you also ask the
employee to do?
Published 04.12.2014
Your employees have the statutory right to raise a grievance from day one of employment. However, if they want to exercise this right, must they put their grievance in writing?
Published 25.02.2014
Where an employee has submitted a written grievance and then they wish to raise further related complaints, must any subsequent grievance also be in writing for the Acas Code on Disciplinary and
Grievance Procedures to apply?
Published 07.02.2024