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Meeting Summary
Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel.
30 May 2019 - 09:30 to 17:00
Occurred
Corporate Meeting Room 1
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Agenda

Agenda
Notification
Committee Members
Membership
To be drawn from Members of the Education and Children's Services Policy Board on the basis of eight Members, being five Members of the Administration, two Members of the Labour Group and one other opposition member.
Chair
Councillor Adam-McGregor, Convener, presided.
In attendance
K Clark, Senior HR Adviser and C MacDonald, Senior Committee Services Officer (both Finance & Resources).
Standard Items
Confidential
Please note that the information contained in this agenda is strictly confidential and is provided to you in strictest confidence in yoru capacity as a member of this Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel.

The information is for discussion at the meeting and must not be disclosed, copied or otherwise processed for any other purpose. All copies must be returned to the clerk at the conclusion of the this meeting.
Items Of Business
Apologies
Apologies from members.
Declarations of Interest
Members are asked to declare an interest in any item(s) on the agenda and to provide a brief explanation of the nature of the interest.
There were no declarations of interest intimated prior to the commencement of the meeting.
EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
The Board may by resolution exclude the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business as it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if members of the press and public are present, there could be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973.
The Appeals Panel resolved that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business as it was likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if members of the press and public were present, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
1 Environment & Infrastructure Services
Appeal against dismissal
1

Consideration was given to an appeal against dismissal on the grounds of breach of the Council's Code of Conduct.

 

The appellant appeared together with J O'Connell, Unite the Union, in relation to the appeal.  L Rennie, Operational Manager (Environment & Infrastructure Services) and E Simpson, Senior HR Adviser (Finance & Resources) represented management.

 

The management side presented its case to the Panel.  The appellant's side and members of the Panel were afforded the opportunity to question the management side.

 

The Panel requested additional information in respect of the case.  The appellant and the management side agreed to the additional information being introduced.

 

 ADJOURNMENT

The meeting adjourned at 10.15 am and reconvened at 10.35 am.

 

J O'Connell, Unite the Union, presented the appellant's case to the Panel.  The management side and members of the Panel were afforded the opportunity to question the appellant's side.

 

Both sides summed up their cases and withdrew at 10.50 am to allow the Panel to consider the matter and reach a decision.

 

Both sides were then recalled at 11.45 am and advised by the Convener that the Appeals Panel had agreed that the grounds of the appeal had been substantiated in part and the appeal was upheld to the extent (a) that the appellant should be reinstated with immediate effect and return to their role within the service; (b) that the sanction be lessened to a final written warning and held on the appellant's record for 12 months; and (c) that a meeting be held between the appellant, HR and management of Environment & Infrastructure Services to ensure appropriate support was put in place

DECIDED: That the grounds of the appeal had been substantiated in part and the appeal was upheld to the extent (a) that the appellant should be reinstated with immediate effect and return to their role within the service; (b) that the sanction be lessened to a final written warning and held on the appellant's record for 12 months; and (c) that a meeting be held between the appellant, HR and management of Environment & Infrastructure Services to ensure appropriate support was put in place.

Return of Reports
The reports for item 2 contain exempt information as defined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and are therefore not available for publication.

Reports must be returned to the Clerk at the close of the meeting for secure disposal.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
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Absent
NameReason for Absence
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Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

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