Originally Posted by
fincastle84
You have put yourself forward on here as some sort of expert on IR & yet you seem foggy about disciplinary hearings. The hearing will always have in attendance someone from HR as well as a line manager, plus the accused person is allowed representation. As stated, the hearings are a procedure which is agreed by the unions.
Having been found GUILTY, why haven't they applied to an industrial tribunal? I think that we all know the answer to that question.
Without commenting on the BA cases, if you take your view to be correct then there would never be any Employment Tribunals. Just because it has been through a process, agreed or otherwise, does not automatically infer fairness. Having someone there from HR is no guarantee of fairness or impartiality.
I doubt litebulbs is 'foggy' about disciplinary hearings.
