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Hi there,
I have just started Early Conciliation with ACAS following being dismissed from my job in March this year. I feel that my dismissal was unfair for a number of reasons including the company not following disciplinary processes.
I made a Subject Access Request a few months ago and received the documents today. Amongst the emails is one from the HR advisor who supported the Investigating Managers who presented the management report at the hearing. She says in relation to the report "I know that time is of the essence on this one so I need to get the first draft completed asap; I’m conscious that it’s a high profile case so I really want to do a good job with this one. I’ve nearly finished; just got a couple of more paragraphs to write for the conclusion and then I will play around with it before I send it to (managers names)". There is another email where she again mentions that she has nearly finished the report and has offered to come in to work extra hours to get it done.
I was really surprised to read this, firstly because being a manager myself at the company for several years and having prepared several reports for dismissal hearings, I would always write the report myself being the investigating manager. HR would check the report to ensure all points were covered and maybe make some amendments to wording, but certainly never write the full report themselves. Am I reading in to this too much? Or is this completely inappropriate? I am wondering if I can bring this up during the Early Conciliation process.
As part of the Subject Access Request I was sent the final management statement of case but none of the draft versions mentioned by the HR advisor. I am going to go back to the company to see why I was not sent the draft documents as it would be interesting to see what input the investigation managers had in to the report (if any).
Many thanks
I have just started Early Conciliation with ACAS following being dismissed from my job in March this year. I feel that my dismissal was unfair for a number of reasons including the company not following disciplinary processes.
I made a Subject Access Request a few months ago and received the documents today. Amongst the emails is one from the HR advisor who supported the Investigating Managers who presented the management report at the hearing. She says in relation to the report "I know that time is of the essence on this one so I need to get the first draft completed asap; I’m conscious that it’s a high profile case so I really want to do a good job with this one. I’ve nearly finished; just got a couple of more paragraphs to write for the conclusion and then I will play around with it before I send it to (managers names)". There is another email where she again mentions that she has nearly finished the report and has offered to come in to work extra hours to get it done.
I was really surprised to read this, firstly because being a manager myself at the company for several years and having prepared several reports for dismissal hearings, I would always write the report myself being the investigating manager. HR would check the report to ensure all points were covered and maybe make some amendments to wording, but certainly never write the full report themselves. Am I reading in to this too much? Or is this completely inappropriate? I am wondering if I can bring this up during the Early Conciliation process.
As part of the Subject Access Request I was sent the final management statement of case but none of the draft versions mentioned by the HR advisor. I am going to go back to the company to see why I was not sent the draft documents as it would be interesting to see what input the investigation managers had in to the report (if any).
Many thanks
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