Publication - FOI/EIR release

Employee grievance and discipline policies/procedures: FOI release

Published: 19 December 2023
Directorate: People Directorate
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: 202300360324
Date received: 6 June 2023
Date responded: 23 June 2023

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

A copy of your current and previous employee grievance and discipline policies/procedures, along with associated guidance that was issued alongside them
Dates when each version was live

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested. This includes the following documents:

Doc No.	Policy	Document	Dates When Live
1.	Grievance	Fairness at Work Policy	From September 2010 to 21 April 2022 (Note – this policy remained live for cases that started prior to 21 April 2022 for the handling of those cases to conclusion
2.	Grievance	Handling of Harassment Complaints Involving Current or Former Ministers	From December 2017 to December 2022
3.	Grievance	Grievance Policy	From 21 April 2022
4.	Grievance	Grievance Procedure	From 21 April 2022
5.	Grievance	Grievance Procedure Flowchart	From 21 April 2022
6.	Grievance	Raising Concerns about Behaviour Route Map	From 21 April 2022
7.	Grievance	Current Procedure for Making a Formal Complaint about a Minister or Former Minister’s behaviour	From December 2022
8.	Grievance	Guidance to Support the Procedure for Formal Complaints about a Minister	From February 2022
9.	Grievance	Intranet Guidance – Resolving Grievances at Work	Current Intranet Guidance
10.	Grievance	Intranet Guidance – Using Early Intervention to Address Concerns	Current Intranet Guidance
11.	Grievance	Intranet Guidance – Facilitated Conversations	Current Intranet Guidance
12.	Grievance	Intranet Guidance - Mediation	Current Intranet Guidance
13.	Discipline	Previous Discipline Policy	Pre-November 2015
14.	Discipline	Current Discipline Policy	From November 2015
15.	Discipline	Intranet Guidance – Discipline Procedures	Current Intranet Guidance
16.	Standards of Behaviour	Standards of Behaviour Policy – Intranet Guidance	Current Intranet Guidance

Please note that as at the date of the request, SG had changed provider for our formal mediation service from Visit Scotland to the Civil Service Mediation Service but such change had not been reflected in our intranet guidance. We have updated guidance to reflect changes to the provider and have provided copies of the current guidance.

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