Have my employer potentially breached their own procedure?

[SAPFO]

So I was terminated for capability reasons. I recently asked for clarification on the process of dismissals & appeals in cases of capability, however, I was told there is no specific policy for that, but told that for consistency in their processes, it is managed in line with the disciplinary procedure. outlined in the employee handbook.

It says.....




"The Disciplinary Procedure is designed to:


- provide a right of appeal to a level of management not previously involved in the case..."








So the procedure in my case went like this......


Stage 1 - Manager A

Stage 2 - Manager B

Stage 3 - Manager C

Stage 4 - Manager D (Dismissal)


Appeal - Manager C (previously involved in the case)






Any advice?

[SAPFO]

It is a large organisation with 9k employees on site, so plenty of managers.

[ULA]

In theory, and if enough managers were available then manager C should not have been involved again in the process.

[SAPFO]

So a tribunal shouldn’t accept their excuse. I’d estimate a minimum of 100 managers would be on site at that time.

Can this potentially be a ‘match winner’ for me?



(I’m gonna post each query bit by bit as opposed to blurbing it all out )

[ULA]

I am not saying that a Tribunal should not accept their excuse, theory and practice are two different things and no do not consider it a "match winner".

If you are going to post further queries then please do so on this thread and not create new threads each time otherwise it will become very confusing.