The abolition of the current statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures moved a step closer this week with ACAS’ Code being approved by the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Assuming Parliament now rubber stamps it, the Code will come into force in April 2009.
The Code is a diluted version of what’s currently in place and reverts back in some ways to the position pre the current statutory procedures. The main features of the code include; the fact that a claim can be brought at the Employment Tribunal without a grievance being raised in the first instance, that a failure to follow the Code will not result in a finding of automatically unfair dismissal and that an unreasonable failure to comply with it could result in an award of compensation being increased by up to 25%.
The Code is intended to promote standards of reasonable behavior and will be considered as best practice. We now await Parliament’s final approval of it.
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