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Chapter 3
Treating a request as withdrawn
[ch 3: page 16]Under the statutory rules, an employer can treat a request as withdrawn if:
• an employee fails without “good reason” to attend the first and second meetings called to discuss it; or
• the employer allows an appeal but the employee fails to attend the first and second appeal meetings.
The Acas guide recommends that the employer find out why an employee was unable to attend before deciding to treat the request as withdrawn.