Grievance procedures

Grievance procedures are usually negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement. 

Information regarding disciplinary rules and grievance procedure must also accompany the written particulars. These requirements are not however conclusive evidence of the terms of the contract of employment, but an employee can ask for the contract to be altered to correspond with the terms if he feels there are discrepancies. It is common also for the particulars to... 

Unwillingness to step outside the existing grievance procedures within the company was the overwhelming reason why staff would be unwilling to consult the Railway Inspectorate. In some cases staff were under the misapprehension that they were barred from communicating directly with the Inspectorate, in other cases staff had simply never experienced a failure of the established company procedures. Alternatively they did not want to pester inspectors ... 

Dismissal is dealt with in the following section, but a Tribunal, to find a dismissal fair, must be satisfied that the dismissal was reasonable in all the circumstances. In the majority of cases this entails the employer following his own disciplinary and grievance procedures subject to the statutory DDF having been included. It is important that an employer should have formal disciplinary rules which should be communicated to each and every employee. It is a requirement of the Employment Rights Act 1996 that the written particulars of employment include the disciplinary rules that are applicable. Should such communication not have taken place the employer will not be able to rely on such rules, and a dismissal which might otherwise have been fair could be ruled unfair. Failure to follow the statutory dismissal procedure will render any dismissal automatically unfair. 

Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Code of Practice No. 1, Disciplinary and grievance procedures. The Stationery Office, London (2000)... 

Notification if the complaint is going through any internal grievance procedure Proof of any written documentation regarding the hazard... 

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