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3. If your standard of performance is still not adequate you will be invited to a subsequent formal meeting and
the outcome could be a warning in writing that a failure to improve and to maintain the performance
required could lead to a further final warning. We will also consider the possibility of a transfer to more
suitable work if possible.
4. If there is still no improvement after a reasonable time, you will be issued with a final warning that you will
be dismissed unless the required standard of performance is achieved and maintained if we cannot transfer
you to more suitable work.
5. If such improvement is not forthcoming after an agreed period of time, you will be dismissed.
6. Every effort will be made in between meetings to set out achievable targets and objectives and you will be
fully aware of the level of performance expected of you.
7. We reserve the right to take into account an employee’s length of service and to vary the procedures
accordingly. If you have a short amount of service, you may not be in receipt of any formal warnings before
dismissal. However, you will retain the right to a formal disciplinary hearing, the right of representation and
the right to appeal.

2.16.3 Personal Circumstances
1. Personal circumstances may arise in the future which do not prevent you from attending for work, but which
prevent you from carrying out your normal duties (e.g. lack of dexterity or general ill health).
If such a situation arises, we will normally need to have details of your medical diagnosis and prognosis so
that we have the benefit of expert advice. Under normal circumstances this can be most easily obtained by
asking your own doctor for a medical report. Your permission is needed before we can obtain such a report
and we will expect you to co-operate in this matter should the need arise.
When we have obtained as much information as possible regarding your condition and after consultation
with you, a decision will be made about your future employment with us in your current role or, where
circumstances permit, in a more suitable role.
2. There may also be personal circumstances which prevent you from attending work, either for a prolonged
period(s) or for frequent short absences. Under these circumstances, we will need to know when we can
expect your attendance record to reach an acceptable level and again this can usually be most easily
obtained by asking your doctor for a medical report.
When we have obtained as much information as possible regarding your condition and after consultation
with you, a decision will be made about your future employment with us in your current role or, where
circumstances permit, in a more suitable role.

2.17 APPRENTICES
All Apprenticeship Programmes will be conducted in accordance with the SOLAS Apprenticeship Code of Practice
for Employers and Apprentices.

2.17.1 Temporary Suspension of the Apprenticeship Programme
Any period of time spent on temporary lay-off (per the redundancy legislation), maternity, adoptive or parental
leave, carer's leave or any other period of statutory protective leave, sick leave (in excess of 6 weeks in any 12-
month period) or any unauthorised absence will not count towards completion of the apprenticeship. During
such absence the apprenticeship will be temporarily suspended. SOLAS retains the discretion to temporarily
suspend an apprenticeship in instances of frequent intermittent absences and/or absences of less than 6 weeks'
duration.

2.17.2 Apprentices Standards of Performance and Conduct
The Apprenticeship Programme requires the apprentice to be responsible for his or her own learning throughout
their apprenticeship. Apprentices are required to abide by this Code of Practice and any ETB Training Centre,
Institute of Technology, College of Further or Higher Education, or other training provider rules applying at any
time during the apprenticeship.
The local SOLAS authorised officer will assist apprentices to comply with this Code of Practice by advising them
where possible of potential or apparent breaches of the standards set out. However, SOLAS reserves the right
to impose the appropriate sanctions up to and including the removal from the Apprenticeship Programme of an

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