Changes to Dispute Resolution - Update
Over the last few months employers have been concerned with the repeal of the law known as dispute resolution. Our main article appeared in the Solutions 58 edition for January/February 2009. Here is a summary of the main issues.
What is this change in the law all about?
New rules on how to handle disciplinary and
grievance meetings came into force on 6 April
2009. The “old law” from 2004 was considered
too complex and has now been replaced by an
Acas Code of Practice which sets out the basic
procedure for handling a disciplinary meeting and
a grievance meeting.
To hold a disciplinary meeting, employers still need
to write to the employee setting out the reasons
for the disciplinary meeting, give the employee
a right to be accompanied by a work colleague
or a trade union official, confirm the reasons for
the disciplinary warning in writing and give the
employee a right of appeal against the decision.
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