Key Benefits
- Gives written notification to the employee that a procedure has started
- Ensures that the employee knows the possible outcome of this case due to the seriousness of the offence
- Supplies the employee with a date, time and venue of the disciplinary hearing
- Documents each breach of the Disciplinary Procedure
- Helps you through each stage of the process if matters escalate
- Stops you having to construct disciplinary letters when you are busy
- Ensures you are in control of running the company
- Makes the employee aware that the behaviour is not acceptable
- Protects the company
- Shows your larger clients that you run an efficient company
- Ensures that without an improvement by the employee you are within your rights to take further action
- Sends a message that it is not acceptable to breach company procedures
Who would use it?
- Line Managers
- Directors
- Small Company Owners
- Human Resources Representatives
What is it?
The 'Potential Dismissal Disciplinary Hearing’ is an employee communication from the company.
When would you use it?
You would use the 'Potential Dismissal Disciplinary Hearing’ to inform the employee that they must attend a 'Disciplinary Hearing' for a potential breach/s of the Company Disciplinary Procedures. In this case you feel from the outset that the allegations, if proved correct, could result in dismissal of the employee, hence the notification letter suggests this. The letter provides all the necessary information to attend the hearing and what to prepare for.
Why would you use it?
You would use the 'Potential Dismissal Disciplinary Hearing’ to ensure that you manage any potential breach's of the Company Disciplinary Procedure in a recognised format and document each step of the process in case of tribunal or appeal.
Additional Information
Many company's don't operate a structured approach to the disciplinary process and hence apply a 'Hire and Fire' type arrangement that opens them up to legal implications due to an unfair application of the process. Contrary to belief, business owners cannot make the rules up as they go along as they also are accountable to outside bodies. By following a recognised procedure and recording each step of the process each company should possess sufficient documentation to support it's actions if they experience intervention by tribunal or otherwise.
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