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3 Responses to “Calling Time on the Statutory Disciplinary & Grievance Procedures!”

1. PeterNich Says:
   January 18th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

   about time and 4 years too late…thank you Mr Blair and chums for acceding to Union pressure and bringing in legislation that was poorly thought out and actually led to more litigation not less for businesses…thank you very much for preventing businesses from dispensing with employees quickly when they have good cause to do so and tying up businesses in months of grievance procedures by employees and Unions with no real gripes but simply to abuse the system and drag out processes and allow employees to have full pay whilst suspended for serious offences

2. Anon Says:
   January 18th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

   only 4 years to repeal a system which was clearly unworkable from the outset…goodness knows how much this has cost UK businesses in protracted grievance & disciplinary procedures…problem is the new laws simply retain the old regime but in a non-codified form so I

3. PeterNich Says:
   March 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm

   Anon…yes new system is non-codified but at least we can go back to the argument under “Polkey” that any errors or slight technical failings would have made no difference to the decision…the prescriptive minutae under the old system was palpable nonsense and good riddance I say…now we just need to repeal TUPE and we’re getting somewhere

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