Dispute over notice period

Comms69

Dumpling63 wrote: »

The complaint (previous - I do know the facts) and we suspect the current boils down to derogatory and sometimes sexist remarks to colleagues - nothing to do with actual social work malpractice. Thanks for sending the link to the HCPTS - makes me realise how completely petty this all is. In response to his resignation he had a one liner telling him it was 3 months. HR have reinforced this but have not sent a copy of the contract.

Wow, I'd have sacked him on the spot.

Manxman_in_exile

1. Is your partner employed by an NHS trust under what I seem to recall is a s.75(?) agreement, or are they still employed by the Local Authority? Are they dealing with the correct HR dept? Not sure if this is relevant or not, but I used to work for a mental health trust that (unusually) had had social workers transferred over under TUPE terms, and there was endless confusion over whose T&Cs applied, especially when social workers took over new roles. It was such a mess the social workers eventually got transferred back to the LA.


2. Aaaarrrgh! Allegations of sexist and/or derogatory comments. Even compared to the rest of the public sector, such allegations are investigated very seriously in the NHS. I happen to think that that is quite right too - but it does mean you have to be exceptionally careful about what you may (quite reasonably) consider flippant or casual remarks. Others may be a lot more sensitive to off-hand comments than you are (or your partner is). I repeat - Aaaarrrgh!