Personnel (Appeals & Applied Conditions of Service) Sub-Committee

Thursday 27 May 2004 at 3.00 pm

Present:  Councillors Forbes (for Hunter), McCormick (for Moran), Hill (for Nimmo), Stewart and Snoddy (for White).

Chair:    Councillor Stewart presided.

In attendance:  Mr H McNeilly (for Director of Legal & Support Services) and Mr A Wilson (for Head of Personnel Services).

The Sub-Committee was adjourned until 3.30 pm to allow the meeting of the Grants Sub-Committee to be concluded.

The following paragraphs are submitted for information only, having been dealt with under the powers delegated to the Sub-Committee.

It was agreed in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that the business involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

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Grievance Appeal - Former Employee in Social Work Services

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The Sub-Committee resumed consideration of a grievance appeal on behalf of a former employee in Social Work Services which had been adjourned from the meeting held on 1 April 2004 to allow the appellant a further opportunity to be in attendance.

The Sub-Committee decided, with Councillor Snoddy intimating his dissent, that the Appeal be not upheld.  The Sub-Committee also instructed the Director of Social Work Services to review the Scheme of Delegation for Social Work Employees to reflect the current position, all as detailed in the Appendix.