FAQs

All items: Discipline

If an employee resigns after disciplinary proceedings have started should the employer continue the procedure?
Can an employer issue a warning to an employee for poor attendance, even where there are genuine reasons for their absences?
Can a disciplinary sanction be increased as a result of an appeal hearing?
Can a worker and union representative agree that the representative will answer all questions put to the worker at a disciplinary hearing?
Where an employer suspects that an employee is working under the influence of alcohol, what action can it take?
Who can be chosen as a companion at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?
Must an employer permit a 16 or 17 year old to be accompanied by a parent at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?
Where an employer recognises one union can a worker ask to be accompanied by an official of another union at a disciplinary or grievance hearing?
Is there a set timescale for the lodging of appeals against disciplinary decisions?
Is there any obligation on an employer to agree to a request from an employee that their disciplinary or grievance hearing be recorded?

Items per page: 10
Page 10 of 11
|<
<
>
>|

About this category

Frequently asked questions and answers on discipline.