Personnel Appeals Sub-committee - 01/03/2016

At a MEETING of the PERSONNEL APPEALS SUB-COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 21st February and 1st March, 2016.

Present:-

Depute Lord Provost Christina ROBERTS

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Stewart HUNTER, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 21st February, 2016 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 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.

I DECLARATION OF INTEREST

There were no declarations of interest.

II APPEAL AGAINST DISMISSAL

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

The Sub-Committee heard the Councils representative and witnesses and, thereafter, the Appellant and his representative.

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 in part and that the appeal be upheld to the extent that the appellant be reinstated and that a final written warning be imposed from 1st March, 2016.

Councillor Hunter intimated his dissent from the foregoing decision.

Stewart HUNTER, Convener.