An employee decides to end the trial period of alternative employment during the redundancy process and decides to leave with immediate effect. we require the employee to work his notice and whilst we would be willing to negotiate on this, we havent been given the opportunity to do so. He has left (has a new job elsewhere) and we reserve the right not to pay him his notice pay in lieu. He has now put a grievance in on grounds of discrimination of not paying his notice pay. Recently another employee left and he was not required to work his notice and therefore was paid in lieu. Any advise on how to proceed without risking the inevitable tribunal?! Many thanks.
Jo Robson