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illegal disciplinary hearing ???
recently got " pulled " by management at work and was given a formal warning . my union are livid because the mistake was caused by someone else before me not closing a valve behind them and it was my fault because i never saw it, seems im being punished for someone else not doing their job ???
needless to say im totally appealling this one however management never took minutes of the meeting or volunteered to do so .
I think that this may be against employment law ???
Anyone know more about this ???
In addition, my union rep was present but havent been able to get hold off him as he is on holiday . like i said no minutes taken , so as far as im concerned no record as to what was really said. how can this be fair ???
I personally would appeal against this warning on the grounds that you feel you have been discriminated against. State that you feel a full investigation has not been completed and that you feel you are being punished for the failing of others. State also that you feel if the management team had done a full investigation that they would have found the root cause of the problem and therefore adjusted their policies and procedures management systems, to prevent this happening again.
Check the job description, training documents of the task you were doing at the time this happened and if neither of them mention "check the valve has been closed" then you have not failed and cannot be held accountable.
The fact that no minutes were taken could be in your favour you can always argue this at a later date if need be and again it will show as a management failing. Professional companies do take minutes. Always take a witness in with you and get them to make notes for you to keep.
Ask for the letter to be held on your personnel file which will balance any information they keep about the warning. Contact your union regional office just because your union rep is on holiday doesn't mean you can't have advice when you need it.
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May 12th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
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