Initiating and Chairing Disciplinary Hearings Training
Our training programmes relating to
Instilling Workplace Discipline and Managing Poor Performance,
Handling Non-Dismissible Offenses, Initiating Disciplinary Hearings,
Chairing Disciplinary Hearings, and Managing All Disciplinary Processes,
are offered throughout South Africa.
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- Discipline in the workplace – Managing all Disciplinary Processes: a 3-day course
Note: This is our most popular course, covering all aspect of disciplinary processes in the workplace.
This course includes:- Managing Poor Performance, Managing Informal Discipline (Counsellings, Verbal Warnings, Written Warnings, Final Written Warnings), Initiating Disciplinary Hearings, and Chairing Disciplinary Hearings.
Initiating and Chairing Disciplinary Hearings Training
This Initiating / Chairing Disciplinary Hearings Training is offered throughout South Africa as
in-house, public and online training
Initiating / Chairing Disciplinary Hearings Training
NQF Level: 5
Course Objective:
By investing in this Chairing Disciplinary Hearings Training Course, you will be able to ensure that your managers and supervisors are trained and competent to initiate and preside over disciplinary hearings and chair grievance meetings.
Course content and outcomes:
Discipline and disciplinary hearings in the workplace
- Fundamental premises that should apply to all disciplinary action
- Typical causes of disciplinary problems in a workplace
- The classification of transgressions relating to unacceptable conduct
- Resignation to Avoid Dismissal (RTAD)
- Initiating a disciplinary hearing, collecting evidence, preparing witnesses
- Opening statements, closing arguments, presenting the evidence, cross-examining witnesses and redirecting
- The impermissible splitting of charges, and independence of transgressions
- Procedural and substantive fairness
- The rules of evidence applicable to disciplinary hearings in the workplace
- The admissibility of evidence, allegations, evidence and facts
- Real evidence, admissions and confessions
- Deciding the merits of the case
Dismissals: Unfair dismissals and unfair labour practices
- The right not to be unfairly dismissed
- Automatically unfair dismissals, other unfair dismissals
- Code of good practice: dismissal (Schedule 8)
- Disputes about unfair dismissals, the burden of proof, remedies
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