What if the employee does appeal?
If an employee wishes to appeal, they should appeal in writing within an appropriate timescale. This should be confirmed in your policy and in the letter confirming the outcome. You should write back to them, inviting them to attend a disciplinary appeal meeting.
An appeal hearing should not be a repeat [...]

Formal disciplinary – what process do I follow?
When considering formal disciplinary action, it is important to conduct an investigation. This should include an investigation meeting with the employee to ensure they are clearly aware of the matter and that it may lead to disciplinary action.
Although employees are not legally entitled to be accompanied at investigatory [...]

What should I do first?
Before discussing matters with an employee, you should determine what you are going to say to them. You should consider the basis for your discussions – this might include making notes before meeting to backup your argument. For example, if you wish to discuss their performance, it will be useful to [...]

Do you have a problem employee?
Before taking any action, it is vital you identify the problem and any underlying causes. Is the issue related to conduct, performance or attendance?
If it’s conduct, depending on the seriousness of the actions, you could have grounds to dismiss. This would normally include serious issues such as theft, assault or [...]

When should I discipline?
Unfortunately, managing people or running your own business means at some time or another you are going to face a problem with an employee, and you might need to consider whether disciplinary action is necessary.
We always get asked how to handle this, and for many businesses, their initial thoughts are to remove [...]

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Last year, UK Businesses that lost unfair dismissal cases at Employment Tribunals paid out an average £8058 in awards and in discrimination cases, the average awards they had to pay out exceeded of £12,000!!
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Many UK businesses don’t related HR Services with reducing staff absence.   Instead they  look at staff absence as just ‘one of those things’ that happens and something that they simply have to cope with on a day to day basis as it occurs.
Did you know that over the last five years, the average staff [...]