| 1 | Discipline and misconduct: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key PLC materials on dismissals for misconduct, including practice notes, checklists, procedures, letters, and tribunal materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Discipline and poor performance: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key PLC materials on dismissals for poor performance, including practice notes, checklists, procedures, letters, and tribunal materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Discipline under the Acas Code: a quick guide A quick guide to the key issues in disciplinary procedures covering misconduct and poor performance, including practical steps to help employers avoid unfair dismissal and uplifts to compensation under the Employment Act 2008. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Dismissing an employee: a quick guide A quick guide to the key issues when dismissing employees, including practical steps to help employers avoid unfair and wrongful dismissal claims.This is one of a series of quick guides, see Quick guides. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Grievances under the Acas Code: a quick guide A quick guide to the key issues when handling employee grievances, including practical steps to help employers avoid uplifts to compensation in employment tribunal claims under the Employment Act 2008. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Unfair dismissal: overview An overview of the law relating to unfair dismissal, including what is a fair dismissal, potentially fair reasons for dismissal, reasonableness of the dismissal, automatically fair and unfair dismissals, who can claim unfair dismissal, details of how to bring a claim and the remedies for unfair dismissal. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 7 | Conducting a disciplinary investigation and hearing A note dealing with the conduct of an investigation and subsequent disciplinary proceedings involving allegations of misconduct by an employee, taking account of the law of unfair dismissal and the 2009 Acas Code of Practice. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Dismissals: the effect of internal appeals A note on the potential outcomes when an employee appeals against their employer's decision to dismiss them. It considers the concept of the "vanishing dismissal" when an employer upholds an appeal, the implications of an employer imposing an alternative penalty, such as demotion, and the relevance of the employer's disciplinary policy being contractual or non-contractual. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Preventing and investigating internal fraud This note provides an analysis of common frauds and a high-level guide to conducting an internal investigation, covering key issues such as: How to handle an internal investigation. Dealing with internal communication issues. Briefing external parties (for example, regulators). | Practice notes | 01-Jun-2012 |
| 10 | Statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures A note examining the statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures (DDPs) under the Employment Act 2002. IMPORTANT. The statutory DDPs were repealed on 6 April 2009 in Great Britain. This note is now only relevant to cases in Northern Ireland and ongoing cases in Great Britain to which the transitional provisions apply (see below). | Practice notes | 07-Jul-2011 |
| 11 | Statutory grievance procedures A note examining the statutory grievance procedures under the Employment Act 2002 that applied before 6 April 2009 and the surrounding legal framework. The note includes step-by-step explanations of the standard and modified grievance procedures. It also aims to unravel the complex rules that applied on admissibility and time limits, and looks at how tribunals treated these rules in practice. IMPORTANT. The statutory dispute resolution procedures were repealed on 6 April 2009 in Great Britain. This note is now only relevant to cases in Northern Ireland and ongoing cases in Great Britain to which the transitional provisions apply (see below). | Practice notes | 08-May-2012 |