Discipline, dismissals and complaints to employment tribunals

Using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we investigate the rate s of disciplinary, sanctions and dismissals, and the incidence of unfair di smissal complaints to employment tribunals in the UK. Workplace rates of di sciplinary sanctions and dismissals vary with age, gender, ethnic and occup ational work-force composition and workplace sits, and, notably, are lower, where trade union density is higher. Workplace practices reflecting a high- commitment management style have limited impact on all three of our depende nt variables, while the existence of formal discipline and dismissal proced ures exerts no influence on whether any unfair dismissal claims are brought at the workplace.