Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures: employment tribunal decisions

This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases in which it was alleged that the employer breached the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures. Each case involves a 10% or 15% uplift in compensation for the employer's failure to follow the code. 

• Breaches of the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures: employment tribunal decisions The cases involve employers' failures to: have a different person deal with the disciplinary appeal; warn an employee that a potential outcome of a disciplinary process was dismissal; deal with an employee's grievance over the handling of her redundancy; set out correctly the accusations against an employee; and have a series of warnings for an employee before dismissing him. 

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Line manager briefing on employee misconduct This line manager briefing covers the topic of employee conduct and aims to provide guidance on the effective management of employees whose conduct at work is unsatisfactory. 

Disciplinary procedure Use this model procedure to set out your organisation's disciplinary process. 

Line manager briefing on handling grievances This line manager briefing covers the topic of handling grievances. It aims to provide guidance on what managers should do to deal with grievances raised by employees in the course of their employment. 

Grievance procedure Use this model policy to set out the steps that any employee with a grievance relating to his or her employment should take.