The typical grievance appeal meeting may follow the following steps:
- The senior manager investigation your grievance will introduce everyone at the meeting, and they should explain the roles of everyone present and how the process will run.
- The manager will then ask you to explain your grounds for the appeal in more detail, asking for any supporting evidence and what you will want to resolve your grievance.
- You or your companion will set out all the details of the grievance and how it can be resolved.
- The manager will have some clarification questions for you to respond to.
- The grievance meeting will be adjourned whilst the manager to carries out any investigations before concluding the grievance.
- The manager would normally respond in writing within a reasonable amount of time, as set out by the company policy.
- The outcome of the appeal will normally be the final decision and you will not have any further rights of appeal unless your company policy allows this.
After this appeal meeting, your employer informs you that they are not upholding your grievance and you have no further rights of appeal, what can you do if you still disagree with the decision?
If you are still not happy with your employer’s decision, you may want to think about other ways of sorting out your problems with your employer.
Depending on the circumstances, you may be able to use mediation or make a claim to an employment tribunal.
If you do end up making a claim to an employment tribunal, there is a strict time limit within which you'll need to make your claim. This is usually three months minus one day from the date that the thing you are complaining about last happened.
The time limit still applies even if you're taking out a grievance. This means you need to make sure that you don't run out of time while going through the grievance procedure.
If you take out a grievance, it's always a good idea to keep a note of exactly what happens and when.
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