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Meeting Summary
Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel.
6 Nov 2025 - 09:30 to 16:00
Occurred
Corporate Meeting Room 1
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Agenda

Agenda
Notification
Committee Members
Membership
8 members, being 5 members of the Administration and 3 members from the opposition parties/groups.
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 Service 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.

Items Of Business
Apologies
Apologies from members.
Declarations of Interest and Transparency Statements
Members are asked to declare an interest or make a transparency statement in any item(s) on the agenda and to provide a brief explanation of the nature of the interest or the transparency statement.
There were no declarations of interest or transparency statements intimated prior to the commencement of the meeting.
EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
The Panel may by resolution exclude the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the following item 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, Housing & Infrastructure
Appeal against demotion.
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Consideration was given to an appeal submitted by an employee of Environment, Housing & Infrastructure following demotion.

The appellant appeared together with C Goodall (UNISON) in relation to the appeal. G Hannah, Head of Climate, Public Protection & Roads (Environment, Housing & Infrastructure) and K Dalziel, People Adviser (Finance & Resources) represented management.

G Hannah advised that some appendices had been omitted from the management submission and that copies were now available. The Panel agreed that the appendices be made available to the appellant, his trade union representative and members of the Panel.

Adjournment

The Panel adjourned at 9.35 am to consider the paperwork tabled at the meeting and reconvened at 9.45 am.

G Hannah presented the management case. Thereafter, the appellant’s side and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the management’s side and evidence presented.

C Goodall presented the appellant’s case. Thereafter, the management side and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the appellant’s side and 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.

Both parties were recalled and advised by the Convener that the Appeals Panel had agreed that the grounds of the appeal had not been substantiated and the appeal was not upheld.

DECIDED: That the grounds of the appeal had not been substantiated and the appeal was not upheld.
 

Attendance

Attended - Committee Members
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Apologies
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Absent
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Declarations of Interests

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