Failure to Attend the Hearing

If the employee fails to attend the hearing at the specified time without prior provision of an acceptable reason, the hearing may proceed in his absence.  However, before doing this, the chairman should endeavour to ascertain the reason for the employee’s non-attendance as well as the likelihood of the employee attending the hearing if it is postponed for a few days.  If this does appear likely, the chairman should postpone the hearing and arrange for a written warning to be delivered to the employee that if he should fail to attend; the hearing will definitely proceed in his absence.