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Failure to attend grievance meeting letter

Learn how to use a grievance meeting non-attendance letter to address an employee’s absence, explain the implications, and communicate the next steps clearly and fairly.

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Stephen Simpson

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If an employee fails to attend a scheduled grievance meeting, employers should follow up to explain the implications and set out how the grievance will be handled next. This guide explains how to use a letter to address non‑attendance and communicate the next steps clearly and fairly.

Use this model letter to contact an employee who has failed to attend a grievance meeting.

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About the author

Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson
Principle Editor – Employment Law and Compliance

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

Areas of expertise:

Employment law, Family leave, Discrimination, Redundancy, Unfair dismissal, HR policies, Employment case law

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