Employment Law - unpaid overtime

Nicki

Ok no offence intended. Your earlier posts on the thread did suggest you were encouraging your husband to rally everyone in the office to work to rule on the basis they had to take a stand, and you are persisting with a letter referring to the boss's offensive behaviour in the face of advice from more than just me that this was unnecessary and my opinion that its inflammatory. That's all I meant by the reference to rocking the boat. I can see you are both upset by the situation, and I've certainly been in similar difficult situations at different points in my career, but in this economic climate and with at least one child to support, you have to think hard about how far it is wise to go. After all when your OH has his new job to go to, and his reference in the bag, then there's nothing to stop him telling the boss exactly what he thinks of him, and if he's as important to the business as you believe, losing him as a member of staff will also be a blow.

teabelly

The only employment law that can really be enacted would be for the group or as many as possible to file a grievance following the companies grievance proceedings. There's little point as Boss doesn't have any superiors. People don't change. If people have stood up to him before and torn strips off him and he's still the same then it's unlikely he's going to behave differently any time soon.

NikNox

Nicki wrote: »

Ok no offence intended. Your earlier posts on the thread did suggest you were encouraging your husband to rally everyone in the office to work to rule on the basis they had to take a stand, and you are persisting with a letter referring to the boss's offensive behaviour in the face of advice from more than just me that this was unnecessary and my opinion that its inflammatory. That's all I meant by the reference to rocking the boat. I can see you are both upset by the situation, and I've certainly been in similar difficult situations at different points in my career, but in this economic climate and with at least one child to support, you have to think hard about how far it is wise to go. After all when your OH has his new job to go to, and his reference in the bag, then there's nothing to stop him telling the boss exactly what he thinks of him, and if he's as important to the business as you believe, losing him as a member of staff will also be a blow.

I think that because I work in a very organised and efficient GP Practice with policies for everything and anything, grievance procedures, sickness policies, outpatient appointment policies, dental appointment policies (the list is endless), where staff are protected and everything is pretty much watertight, it does make me angry to see anyone working seemingly without any rules and regulation, and I believe that rights are important. My husband has tried to encourage his colleagues to stand up to their boss, not me, but they are only prepared to moan about him behind his back. I do believe that if they all stood up to him it could make a difference, whereas it's only my husband that does stand up to him and therefore he is the one who gets it in the neck, but I cannot encourage his colleagues to do anything any more than my husband can.

We are all equal as human beings, and everyone deserves respect in life, and in the workplace.