The Right to be Accompanied: what’s it all about?
Employees have a legal right to be accompanied to certain formal workplace meetings - but when does this apply, who can they bring, and what are the risks if an
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Disciplinaries
Disability and Misconduct: the HR tightrope and how to walk it
Where an employee is accused of an act of misconduct in the workplace, the role of HR is usually clear and (fairly) straightforward: get an investigation off the ground, consider
Hewston v Ofsted and the building blocks of a fair conduct dismissal
In the recent case of Hewston v Ofsted, the Court of Appeal took a closer look at what ‘reasonable’ should look like in the context of a dismissal for gross
The Role of Previous Warnings in Disciplinary Proceedings
Misconduct is one of the five ‘potentially fair reasons’ for dismissal contained in the Employment Rights Act 1996. There are two ways in which dismissals for misconduct generally occur.
The first
Top Tips for Suspending an Employee
Suspension can follow a disciplinary allegation like night follows day. However tempting to protect or appease a complainant, a knee-jerk reaction is a dangerous move. Though touted as a neutral