Employers often need help to deal with employee grievances or serious disciplinary issues in the workplace. These issues can become prolonged and complicated and must be fairly and robustly managed.
Having the correct policies and procedures in place is crucial to ensure fair and effective management of discipline and grievance issues and to maintain healthy relations with staff.
How Hill Dickinson can help
Hill Dickinson's employment team is able to advise on the full range of issues relating to disciplinary and grievance matters from investigations and evidence gathering to dismissals and appeals. The team has extensive experience in drafting disciplinary and grievance policies and procedures that enable businesses to handle internal disputes with confidence and sensitivity.
Our team of more than 40 employment lawyers can advise on all disciplinary and grievance matters including:
- Training managers on how to deal effectively with disciplinary and grievance issues
- Employee suspensions
- Undertaking a fair and reasonable investigation
- Gathering, analysing and evaluating evidence
- Disciplinary and grievance processes
- Warnings
- Appeals and outcomes
- Preparing and drafting documents and policies
Key contacts
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7260
- jeff.middleton@hilldickinson.com
In addition to a raft of internal promotions, Hill
Dickinson LLP’s Liverpool office also acquired a team of four from
Halliwells led by Kerstie Skeaping, adding significant experience
in tribunal hearings, and in trade union matters and industrial
relations. Jeff Middleton now leads the team.
This
team has a strong reputation for advising NHS clients, and it
continues to grow on the corporate side, too. Recent highlights
include representing the Law Society in High Court proceedings
relating to TUPE. Other notable clients include Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust, Iceland Foods and the North West Development
Agency.
