Disciplinary Hearing Adjourned

[Marnie900]

Hi guys,

So last week I wrote a post about having taken 7 weeks off work due to my mental health, I'd been working non-stop, hadn't taken a days holiday off in 15 months, and had been off sick a couple of times with bugs.

I went to the meeting, and it seemed that obsessing and making a lot of notes helped, because I was more prepared than they were, I'd brought up a lot of things about how i didn't get along with my manager, how he hadn't made reasonable adjustments to help with my anxiety and told me to just do it, which in turn ended up drowning me with work and pressure.

The entire time, I mostly spoke and they brought up "issues" that had never been mentioned before. If said issues had been such a big deal before, why had I never heard of them? So mostly they were making up stuff and making out I was incapable of my job. No adjustments had/have ever been put in place to help me (I'm now worried my manager's turned around and said I've never mentioned them, bcos is he really likely to admit that with how things have turned out?)

I ended it with a long winded speech about how, if I had received my managers support when I asked for it, given the Mental Health Laws that exist to support me, I may not have had to take as much time off as I did, and then they ended the meeting. That was Friday.

I've had a call today, asking if I can go in tomorrow, so Ive said yeah, but they mentioned the hearing had only been "adjourned", I was under the impression that would be it, and id just go back in to their decision the next week.

Do they usually adjourn it and then continue it without coming to a decision after a week? or will this maybe be the decision tomorrow?

I'm slightly worried, as I told my rep and he said the way things ended weren't great, he said I did great but with some of the things I said, Ive put them on the "back foot" and they don't like it, so they're probably gonna come back with some more stuff to make me seem incapable of doing the job.

I have had another job offer, so I'm not worried about finding another job, I just don't want this to end badly because the way I'm at with my mental health, I just cannot deal with it. I just want to get back to work.

So, is it normal for me to have to go back to continue the meeting, or will they likely give me a decision?

Hi op.

I've had a similar if not identical situation.
In the end they didn't discipline me at all due to my managers incompetence- they are probably investing and interviewing your manager.

At my workplace, we use the term 'adjourn' to denote the break in a first stage health/sickness attendance meeting, after which HR and the management team go away and decide how to proceed (whether to turn the issue into a disciplinary matter or not). The meeting is then 'reconvened' in order to advise how the matter is then going to be taken forwards.

Hiya, there was little reason for me to have a Disciplinary to be honest, id been signed off by my dr and made every effort to go back but they wouldn't let me. They didn't mention my attendance in that meeting, just asked if my absence beforehand had a reason id not yet told them about.

I made a fuss about not wanting to go back to work and say oh no, i didnt want come back and start shitting on my managers rep, but after how negligent he's been, he deserves it, despite the fact he isn't even on the team anymore, funnily enough he was removed and replaced. Hmmm.

If you have another job offer then why not put in your notice?
If they have questions over your competence they may be happy to accept it and the disciplinary will probably go away and you can look forward to starting your new job.