Can somebody talk to me about the Good work plan and who it applies to please?

[GazingAndGrazing]

Specifically whether it applies to apprentices and if you can include the new rules within a grievance if you haven’t mentioned it in your initial reconciliation attempt via email.

It’s not as simple as that OP. The good work plan involves many different things, affecting different groups of people.

What specifically do you want to know whether applies to apprentices?

I assumed it wouldn’t be straight forward, thank you for replying. I have another thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4024634-DD-s-boss-and-babe-station-comment?msgid=100115486

I don’t envisage you read all 6 pages, the opening op plus after delving further DD was called into an office by the director and dismissed on day 8 with no prior notice or offer of appeal.

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated, I’m out of my depth.

OP I've read your other thread.

There is no doubt that your DD has been subjected to discrimination on 3 counts.

Please bear in mind however that the employer in this situation won't do anything until they have to do something. They will sit back and wait, they will certainly never apologise.

The most effective thing you can do that won't cost you months of time, money and stress is to seek specific advice from an employment solicitor. This would be with the aim of them determining a suitable "sword of Damocles" type letter to send the employer summarising the situation described by your DD, of the specific aspects of law under the Equality Act (2010) that they have contravened and suggesting a suitable Ex gratia payment to allow the matter to be resolved.

They will either fold their arms and do nothing in the hope you'll go away, or they may get their solicitor talking with your solicitor and agreeing a settlement. If they force you to take it to Tribunal, because they take no action, you will be in for a long arduous journey, which may never fully recompense your DD for what has happened. Remember you have 3 months from the date of the last discriminatory event, for you to lodge with Tribunal, so the clock is already ticking.

Whilst it is good to call these diabolical employers to account, consider the effect of so doing on you, your DD and your family first and foremost.

Daisychain. I really appreciate your reply and it is something I have been mulling over in the background.
Whilst I want to show my daughter that we don’t put up with that type of behaviour which she has already proven she knows as she walked out and refused to go back.

The anxiety in me is already quite severe, and DD has said she doesn’t want to go to court and being 16 she has already moved on and sorted starting 6th form.

I’m inclined to see what happens on the 30th of Sept (her pay date) before doing anything else.

I assume the bit of the Good Work Plan you are wondering about is the right to a written statement of particulars on day one, and yes this applies to apprentices, however it doesn't sound like she actually is an apprentice, 'just' a normal employee.

Given your and your DD's very specific circumstances I would probably focus on trying to get any unpaid wages and holiday pay (yes absolutely she is entitled to holiday) and move on. Taking a claim further, whilst probably a pretty solid one, will take months and months (looking at 18 months - 2 years really until a full hearing), and is stressful and, if you instruct a solicitor and/or barrister, which I would for this type of claim, expensive.

Focus on the most positive outcome for your DD, and I think, given she is far better off out of it anyway, and has moved on to something much more positive, the best outcome would not be to drag her through that process to effectively 'punish' the employer (although they clearly deserve it), but to be able to put it behind her and get some money owed her for holiday and the like. If you pursue it much further, she will not be able to put it behind her and it will be hanging over her for months.

Thank you, all very sound advice and very much a lesson learnt.
All the best