PART IVSUPPLEMENTARY
Status of meetings
14. A meeting held for the purposes of this Schedule is a hearing for the purposes of Article 15(4) and (5) of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (NI 9) (definition of “disciplinary hearing” and “grievance hearing” in relation to the right to be accompanied under Article 12 of that Order).
Scope of grievance procedures
15.—(1) The procedures set out in Part II are only applicable to matters raised by an employee with his employer as a grievance.
(2) Accordingly, those procedures are only applicable to the kind of disclosure dealt with in Part VA of the Employment Rights Order (protected disclosures of information) if information is disclosed by an employee to his employer in circumstances where—
(a)the information relates to a matter which the employee could raise as a grievance with his employer, and
(b)it is the intention of the employee that the disclosure should constitute the raising of the matter with his employer as a grievance.