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Sept/Oct 2005 No 56
REPRESENTING MEMBERS
Action reduced after procedures appeal

When management failed to follow procedures when disciplining a member, UNISON Clackmannanshire activist John Fairley stepped in.

Following appeal, the action against the member was reduced to an oral warning.

John raised a grievance about the timescale and about how witnesses had been interviewed but management tried to hold the disciplinary and the grievance at the same time.

"On the advice of our regional officer I made my objection and left the hearing before it began", said John, but the hearing went ahead.

"I appealed this on the grounds of failure to follow council procedures for grievance & disciplinary and continued use of bad practice", he added.

As a result, the member's final written warning was reduced to a six month oral warning.

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