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Length:
30 minutes of audio
(+ optional 5 minute online quiz)
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Course Aims:

This course considers the statutory discipline, dismissal and grievance procedures and provides an overview of the procedures, an examination of the recent case law and predictions for the future reform of the legislation. It is a good introduction for employment and common law practitioners and an update for employment law specialists.

Outcomes:
After completing the course you will:
  • Understand the detail of the statutory discipline, dismissal and grievance procedures;
  • Understand the legal consequences of a failure to comply with the procedures;
  • Understand the likely reforms to the statutory procedures;
  • Understand the practical steps employers should take to comply with the procedures.
Level:
Intermediate Difficulty: 3 of 5
Sources and References:
  • Employment Act 2002;
  • Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004;
  • Polkey v A. E. Dayton Services Ltd [1988] ICR 142;
  • ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures can be found at www.acas.gov.uk.

In this podcast, Darren Newman considers the key principles of the statutory discipline and dismissal procedures. The podcast also covers the application of the statutory grievance procedures. Included in his consideration are the details of the procedure; the ways in which employers may breach the procedure; the application of the rules on the lodging of grievances; how to deal with the overlap between discipline and grievance; and how individual and collective redundancies overlap. Darren also looks at the likely future reform of the procedures.

Darren Newman is an independent employment law trainer and is associate editor of the Industrial Law Bulletin.

Podcast Added: 08/11/2007

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