What if an employee raises a grievance during a disciplinary process?
The local authority employer will need to decide whether to suspend the disciplinary process to deal with the grievance, or where the issues are related, to deal with the grievance concurrently with the disciplinary process. Amongst other examples, the Guidance indicates that it may be appropriate to suspend the disciplinary process where the grievance relates to the conduct of the manager holding the disciplinary meeting. However, where employees make an invalid point, it would not be appropriate to suspend disciplinary proceedings.
