Personnel Appeals Sub-committee - 12/03/2013

At a MEETING of the PERSONNEL APPEALS SUB-COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 11th December, 2012 and 12th March, 2013.

APPENDIX I

Present:-

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Stewart HUNTER, Convener, in the Chair

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 1st October, 2012 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

The Sub-Committee resolved under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the undernoted items of business on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Act.

I DECLARATION OF INTEREST

There were no declarations of interest.

II APPEAL AGAINST DISMISSAL

It was reported than an appeal against dismissal from an employee of the Social Work Department had been submitted.

The Sub-Committee heard the Council's representative and witnesses and thereafter, the Appellant.

After questions had been put and answers given by both parties to each other and the witnesses, and by members of the Sub-Committee, the parties withdrew.

Thereafter, following careful consideration of all the information, the Sub-Committee agreed that the grounds of the appeal had been substantiated and that the appeal be upheld.

Stewart HUNTER, Convener.