The Disciplinary Sample Clauses

The Disciplinary. Review Committee shall: (a) provide an opportunity for the employee to be interviewed by it and ensure that he/she has adequate opportunity to respond to findings of unsatisfactory performance or allegations of misconduct or serious misconduct. The DRC may take into account such further materials as it believes appropriate to substantiate or otherwise the facts in dispute; (b) interview any person it thinks fit to establish the merits or facts of the particular case; (c) conduct all interviews in the presence of the employee or the employee's representative advocate and the Vice-Chancellor (or nominee) and the University's representative; (d) allow the employee and the University each to be assisted or represented by an agent of his or her choice who is an employee of the University (but not if such a person is a currently practising solicitor or barrister), or by an officer or employee of the NTEU or the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association; (e) conduct proceedings as expeditiously as possible consistent with the need for fairness; (f) conduct proceedings in camera (unless otherwise agreed by the NTEU and the Vice-Chancellor (or nominee)) and as a committee of inquiry; (g) take into account such further material as it believes appropriate to the case; (h) ensure that the employee or his/her representative and the University through its representative have the right to ask questions of interviewees, and to make submissions. They also shall have the right to present and challenge evidence; (i) make its report available to the Vice-Chancellor (or nominee) and the employee as soon as reasonably possible; (j) keep an audio recording of the proceedings (but not its own deliberations), which shall be available on request to either party.