Disciplinary And Grievance Processes Checklist

We have prepared the following checklist which we hope will be useful to your managers when they deal with disciplinary and grievance issues.

General

Read the Code before embarking on any disciplinary or grievance process. It is not a long document and is easy to read. Always have a copy available so that you can refer to it if you need to.

Managing a disciplinary process

1. When managing any disciplinary process try to adopt an impartial commonsense approach. In particular:

1.1 try to resolve issues informally, if possible;

1.2 do not delay in investigating the facts. You should avoid the same person carrying out the investigation and the disciplinary hearing or that person being involved as a witness;