Misconduct Dismissals: Tricky Issues and Latest Developments [2019]

Topics include:

• When to suspend
  
• The importance of conducting a reasonable investigation
  
• Anonymous witnesses
  
• Managing grievances and disciplinaries which overlap
  
• Significance of previous warnings
  
• Whether an employer can take into account previous misconduct which the employee was not disciplined for
  
• Summary dismissal where there has been no single act of gross misconduct
  
• Social media issues
  
• Alternatives to dismissal
  
• Review of recent case law