Top Ten Tips for Losing an Employment Tribunal Case

*WARNING: This lecture was recorded in 2014. The content may be seriously out of date*
0:00 - intro
0:28 - #10 Ignoring your procedures
3:00 - #9 Not allowing recording of meetings
7:52 - #8 Never allowing appeals
9:30 - #7 Allowing office banter to get out of hand
13:18 - #6 Letting the employee derail their disciplinary
19:08 - #5 The three types of grievance
27:34 - #4 Ducking performance issues
29:54 - #3 Hoping grievances will go away
32:58 - #2 Denying requests to be accompanied to meetings
38:33 - #1 Panicking when a female employee gets pregnant
Filmed at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London, in 2014 (as part of Daniel Barnett's Employment Law MasterClass 2014). Get the recordings from the most recent Employment Law MasterClass (2019) at masterclass2019.co.uk
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