Comments for My Grievance at http://www.mygrievance.co.uk , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.mygrievance.co.uk Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:10:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.mygrievance.co.uk/content/view/68/80/#comment-16 This article could actually be a carbon copy of a complaint I put to the Health and Safety Executive having represented countless individuals over the years through complaints of bullying and harassment and just plain unacceptable behaviour. The outcomes follow almost exclusively the pattern described and the outcomes are invariably an "Exit Strategy" (Employers terminology, not mine). Even when I actually proved that a member of HR was found not only to have lied but to have submitted a falsified document this was ignored and the outcome was the same - Exit Strategy. My reasons for bringing in HSE was the stress caused to these individuals as their complaints were drawn out anything up to two years (four in one case that is still not concluded)following the investigative process and I now realise had only one inevitable outcome. The Bullying and Harassment Procedure is merely the Grievance Procedure with no appeal stage. I now inform staff to avoid at all costs the use of the formal procedure and to merely stick to all possible means of the informal procedure. This means that there is no investigative process to follow - merely a series of meetings that have to be concluded before leaving. Although the procedures state that all informal procedures are to be exhausted before recourse to formal procedures they try to push complainants towards the formal because the formal procedures they can manipulate whereas the informal meetings are less predictable. Managers and HR Officers are out of their depth here with no foreseeable outcome. It is almost funny to see the frustration on their faces as they almost beg the complainant to take up a formal grievance only to be told that they do not consider that this would be helpful. - fireball Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:40:03 +0100