A disciplinary is when your employer has concerns about your behaviour.
Find out more in our disciplinary standards (PDF, 180KB) and disciplinary policy (PDF, 130KB).
The stages of disciplinary are:
- Concern
- First steps
- Formal procedure
- Appeal
Talking about behaviour concerns
To help create a good place to work we have standards of behaviour that we expect everyone to keep to.
Your manager will talk to you right away if they have any concerns about your behaviour.
Informal procedure
The informal procedure is used for the everyday parts of being at work. For minor misconduct this means things like:
- talking to your manager about why your behaviour is being thought of as misconduct
- discussing and agreeing with your manager what needs to change
For allegations of misconduct, your manager will establish the facts behind the allegation and deciding whether or not to use the formal procedure
For allegations of gross misconduct, your manager will go straight to using the formal procedure
Formal procedure
The formal procedure will be started when:
- day to day management has not improved things
- misconduct keeps happening
- there is an allegation of gross misconduct
In some cases it will also be started for allegations of misconduct. This will depend on things like the nature of the misconduct and the role you have.
Your manager will contact People Support to let them know that the formal procedure is being started. Once your manager has made contact, People Support will share the detailed guides and letter templates with them.
Find out more about what to expect if you are in a disciplinary process (PDF, 60KB).
Appeal
If you wish to appeal a hearing outcome the details of when this needs to be done by and who to send it to will be included in your hearing outcome letter.
How to guides
- How to address a concern (PDF, 94KB)
- How to be a contact person (PDF, 87KB)
- Investigation managers guide (PDF, 143KB)
- Agreed outcome guide (PDF, 89KB)
- Independent hearing guide (PDF, 116KB)
- Disciplinary report template (DOCX, 57KB)
- How to conduct an appeal (PDF, 94KB)
Letter templates
- Witness invite to an investigation meeting (DOCX, 64KB)
- Employee invite for further investigation meeting (DOCX, 66KB)
- Invite to independent hearing (DOCX, 65KB)
- Failure to attend an independent hearing (DOCX, 92KB)
- Reschedule an independent hearing (DOCX, 91KB)
- Invite to appeal meeting (DOCX, 65KB)
Outcome letters available from People Support.