employment law grievance from leaver

[factor-fiction]

An employee from my small business resigned recently and has left. But she has now said she wants to submit a grievance. Do I have to follow our grievance procedure even though she had left or can i safely ignore it?

[dot.hawkes]

if she has left then i do not think she can use the statutory grievance procedure, as she is no longer an employee. She may be going down the constructive dismissal route though.

[kempie]

Former employees are entitled to raise a grievance after their employment has ended.

In most cases, employees will have to use the standard three step grievance procedure even after they have left employment in any organisation. However, in some limited circumstance they may be able to use a shorter (modified) grievance procedure once they have left employment.

The modified procedure only applies where the employee has left employment before the employer became aware of the grievance or before the three step procedure had been completed and the parties have agreed in writing to use the modified procedure.

http://www.tssa.org.uk/article-46.php3?id_arti cle=1751