Chairing and Initiating Disciplinary Hearings
This training will provide guidelines for chairing disciplinary hearings, the role of all participants, procedural and substantive fairness, admissible evidence, and making a fair verdict on the basis of a balance of probabilities, and a fair penalty.
Section One – Fair and effective discipline
- General principles of fair and effective discipline
- The need to discipline
- What effect does the LRA (1995) have on discipline and dismissals?
- Unfair dismissal, Automatically unfair dismissal and fair dismissal
- Employee duties to a company
- Issuing of warnings
Section Two – Conducting a fair disciplinary enquiry
- How to conduct a fair disciplinary enquiry
- Procedural and substantive fairness
- The disciplinary enquiry: preliminary investigation to collect evidence
- The disciplinary enquiry: notification, formulating the charge, employee rights
- Checklist for the chairperson of a disciplinary enquiry
- The key roles and characteristics of participants at a disciplinary enquiry
- Mitigating, aggravating evidence: The impact
Section Three – effect of criminal proceedings on disciplinary action
- Criminal proceedings and disciplinary enquiries
- Acquittals: effect on dismissal
Section Four – The Labour Relations Act’s, Code of Good Practice: Dismissals
- Introduction
- Fair reasons for dismissal
- Procedures
- Suggested procedure for holding a disciplinary investigation [Item 4(1) of the code]
- Dismissals and industrial action
- Poor work performance
- Ill health or injury
Enquiries
Tel: 011 298 9400
Email: info@seifsa.co.za
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Duration
6 Hours
Time
09:00 - 15:00
Where
Online - In Person