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Birmingham Law Society Column - February 2009

Sunday, 1st February 2009

February 2009 By Linda Jones, chair of Birmingham Law Society's Employment Law Committee and partner at Pinsent Masons LLP Employers and employment lawyers alike are looking forward to the abolition of the Statutory Disciplinary and Grievance procedures on 6 April this year. The Government introduced the procedures in 2004 to encourage the resolution of employment disputes within the workplace, cutting down the number of employment tribunal claims. Specialist employment judges and senior employment lawyers expressed serious concerns about the procedures before they were introduced, and their reservations have now proved to be well-founded.