Human Resource Management in Virgin Atlantic Airways : Assignment
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT1
Week 9:The report of 1st November 2008 shows that Virgin Atlantic Airways has taken a step against thestaffs as they have criticised their airline’s flight safety standards. Such behaviour of the staffmembers had insulted the company due to which Sir Richard Branson had sacked 13 flightattendants. As it was reported that, the flight attendants described its passengers as “chavs ”publicly on social media. The behaviour of the staffs was totally inappropriate which hadbrought the company into disrepute, as said by Sir Richard Branson. Such inappropriatebehaviour made Virgin Atlantic take a step of confirming 13 members of its cabin crew who willbe leaving the company as they broke staff policies (Conway, 2017). After the investigation took place, a statement against the company was also found on socialmedia site, Facebook where the staffs claimed that in one year the airline’s jet engines werereplaced four times. Besides, the planes of Virgin Atlantic were full of cockroaches. Thisstatement publically had diminished organisation reputation and goodwill in market place. It wasa grievance procedure that was undertaken by the staffs itself (Conway, 2017). Hence, it is required to set procedures by employment law to overview practical issues likeemployment status, contractual and implied terms, data protection, dismissals, discrimination andmany more. Employment law gives statements for grievance and disciplinary action. Theemployees are protected with the help of this law against any wrongful and unfair dismissal.Therefore, a fair and reasonable process will be stated on the circumstances by making fairassessment and using of fair and objective method will be used. If it is a grievance complaint theemployer need to put in writing where the employee will find company handbook, employmentcontract, HR intranet site and personnel manual. Moreover, in case of disciplinary contract theemployer should put in writing stating disciplinary procedure rules, performance and behaviourtype leading to disciplinary action and action taken by employer (Gov.uk. 2017).2
Reference List:Conway, L. (2017).Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 staff for calling its flyers 'chavs'. [online] TheIndependent. Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/virgin-atlantic-sacks-13-staff-for-calling-its-flyers-chavs-982192.html [Accessed 30 Nov. 2017].Gov.uk. (2017).Solve a workplace dispute: Formal procedures - GOV.UK. [online] Availableat: https://www.gov.uk/solve-workplace-dispute/formal-procedures [Accessed 30 Nov. 2017].3
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