Right of Accompaniment. All employees required to attend a disciplinary meeting are entitled to be accompanied by an accredited trades union official or fellow employee.
Right of Accompaniment. All employees required to attend a dismissal appeal meeting (whether at domestic level, Stage 2 or an NJC Dismissal Arbitration Panel) are entitled to be accompanied by an accredited trades union official or fellow employee.
Right of Accompaniment. 8.1 Employees have the right to be accompanied by their Trade Union Representative or work colleague at any meetings arranged to discuss the withdrawal of a supplement or subsequent appeal.
Right of Accompaniment. At all disciplinary and appeal hearings the Executive may choose to be accompanied by another member of staff or a Trade Union Representative ("the Companion"). If the Companion chosen by the Executive is not available at the time proposed for the hearing by the Company, the Executive is entitled to propose that the hearing takes place at a reasonable alternative time. That alternative time must not be later than 5 working days (beginning with the first working day after the date originally proposed by the Company for the hearing) after the day proposed by the Company. The Company will allow any employee time off to act as a Companion to another employee or Executive who is required to attend a disciplinary hearing. The Companion will be permitted to address the hearing but will not be entitled to answer questions on the Executive's behalf. However, the Executive may, during the course of the hearing, ask for the opportunity to confer privately with his Companion. MISCONDUCT ---------- Examples of Misconduct The following are examples of offences which will be treated as misconduct: - . bad time-keeping; . unauthorised absence; . minor damage to Company property; . minor breach of the Company's rules; . failure to observe Company procedures; . minor incidents of abusive behaviour. These offences are not exclusive or exhaustive any other offences of a similar or equivalent nature and degree will be dealt with as misconduct.
