Documents
Agenda
Committee Members
Membership
Councillor Jennifer Marion Adam-McGregor, Councillor Bill Binks, Councillor Stephen Burns, Councillor Jacqueline Cameron, Councillor Jim Paterson
Standard Items
Confidential
Please note that the information contained in reports for this meeting is exempt from publication and is provided in strictest confidence to members of this Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Services Appeals Panel.
The information is for consideration at the meeting and must not be disclosed, copied or otherwise processed for any purpose. All documents must be destroyed when the meeting ends.
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.
Items Of Business
Minutes of Previous Meetings
Minutes of meetings of the Panel held in January and March 2020.
Procedure
Procedure for Hearing.
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.
Appeal against dismissal.
Return of Reports
Reports for this item are confidential and arrangements are in place for the hard/paper copy of the agenda to be uplifted from members of the Panel following the meeting so that the reports are disposed of securely .
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Consideration was resumed of an appeal submitted by an employee of Environment & Infrastructure following dismissal from the Council’s employment.
The Minutes of the meetings of the Panel held on 23 January and 19 March 2020 had been submitted together with the procedure to be employed at the hearing.
E Scott, Facilities Manager (Hard Services) (Environment & Infrastructure) presented the management case.
The appellant, his trade union representative and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the management representatives and the evidence presented.
A Scobie (UNITE) presented the appellant’s case. Thereafter the management representatives and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the appellant and the evidence presented.
Both sides summed up their position and then withdrew from the meeting to allow the Panel to consider the matter and reach a decision.
Following discussion, it was the Panel’s decision that the grounds of the appeal had not been substantiated and that the appeal was not upheld.
Both parties re-joined the meeting and were informed of the decision by the Convener.
DECIDED: That the grounds of the appeal were not substantiated and that the appeal was not upheld.
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Disciplinary Procedure
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