Slander in the work place

[Scrumpy11]

My former group leader, now associate put on Facebook feed that I was a pedophile, sleeping with my sister. I have the screen shots. There seems to be some standard joke in the work place between several employees. I help my sister with my nephews as she is a nurse and they are autistic, one with Asperger's. I work for a large car manufacturing company. What can I do? The incident happened June last year, I did not want to raise the matter as its a managers son. Employees. managers have been strange with me since, I dont know why. If asked, no one knows but Sarcee comments continue, like how are the Wests, meaning Fred and Rose West. I can ignore whats being said, but I cannot ignore that i am being treated less favourable than others and I'm being pushed out the company. Can I still raise this with HR? is it a criminal matter?

[atticus]

Raise a grievance with your company's HR director.

[Scrumpy11]

Raise a grievance with your company's HR director.

I have seen from past cases, HR lose paperwork on cases. Thank you for your advise. There is a lot more to this bit this matter but this is the most relevant. I have been bullied by the 'Ole boy club' so to speak for nine years or more. On for occasions they have tried to push me out, a;ll documented with HR. Conveniently, HR have no record of such emails. However I kept a strict record of all bullying. Such has Hiatus Hernia being marked down as alcoholism. I found myself losing an appeal about to be saked, until I copied HR into what was transpiring. My record was clean the next day. In short, when I was agency, a Seniour managers son informed me f the wrong shift to come back to work on safter christmass. I had the text message as proof. This was buried as he went to school with my manager sat the time son and still went to dinner. Ive been bullied ever since, but since operation they have had nothing to pin on me, so they ignore their own occupational heath, stating they never knew due to the G?DPR18 regs.

I appreciate your help, thank you.

Stevieb

[echat11]

What you really need to do is make a decision, 'should I stay or should I go' (The Clash). If the situation is effecting your health, then the best thing is to leave, you have lots of options, but make sure you keep a diary. The first thing is to raise it informally (which you've already done no doubt many times). Follow the company's grievance procedure, exhaust that, then consider lodging a complaint with an Employment Tribunal, if the issues still aren't resolved. Because this 'bullying' has gone on for a long time, the 'bullies' has 'called your bluff', 'he won't do anything etc'. So they just carry on. The HR, company etc, need to get seriously engaged, no doubt they will.

https://www.gov.uk/workplace-bullying-and-harassment

[Scrumpy11]

What you really need to do is make a decision, 'should I stay or should I go' (The Clash). If the situation is effecting your health, then the best thing is to leave, you have lots of options, but make sure you keep a diary. The first thing is to raise it informally (which you've already done no doubt many times). Follow the company's grievance procedure, exhaust that, then consider lodging a complaint with an Employment Tribunal, if the issues still aren't resolved. Because this 'bullying' has gone on for a long time, the 'bullies' has 'called your bluff', 'he won't do anything etc'. So they just carry on. The HR, company etc, need to get seriously engaged, no doubt they will.

https://www.gov.uk/workplace-bullying-and-harassment

Thank you. For the best part am thick skinned, 48 years of age, I am there to work, not make friends. On the other side of the coin, it does get me down when not only do I have this slander, I have work overloaded for no reason, called too slow, ;lazy. All this when I am keeping up, if not sometimes ahead of my colleagues.

I appreciate your advice, thank you.

[echat11]

Thank you. For the best part am thick skinned, 48 years of age, I am there to work, not make friends. On the other side of the coin, it does get me down when not only do I have this slander, I have work overloaded for no reason, called too slow, ;lazy. All this when I am keeping up, if not sometimes ahead of my colleagues.

I appreciate your advice, thank you.

Wait for more advice from ULA .

[ULA]

You need to make a decision about whether you want to take a formal approach and raise a grievance about the bullying and harassment you feel you have been subject to. Unfortunately things that happened years ago would now be difficult to investigate but if you have some recent events that you can document date, time, place, who bullied or harassed you and if there were any witnesses then this most definitely needs to be out into any grievance you raise. Without any incidents to refer to the company will have difficulty in trying to investigate.