Guidance notes for officers appealing
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The Appeal Board and what it does
The Board is an independent body and all its Board members are retired
civil servants (apart from the Chairman) who have many years experience in
dealing with HR Management
issues. At each hearing, the Board comprises a Chairman and two Board
members, one from a panel of retired senior civil servants and the other
from a panel consisting of retired senior trade union officials. All are
selected on the basis of fair and open competition. The Board decides
whether the decision to end your employment was fair. In arriving at their
decision the Board looks at four specific areas:
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Procedures - were the procedures followed correctly?
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Substantive issue - was the employee treated fairly and reasonably by the
employer?
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Consistency - as anyone else in the same circumstances treated
differently? and
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Proportionality - did the situation warrant the penalty of dismissal?
Further details of these four areas can be found in the attached note,
‘Good Practice Principles’.
The remit of the Board is not to substitute its judgement for that of the
department/agency nor does it have any locus to hear appeals from civil
servants who wish to appeal against decisions on medical retirement.
