Hi, I have just been dismissed by my former employer from letting them know about a workplace bullying issue that happened in the workplace. The management was not there at the time so I told the health and safety person about the issue and they told me to leave it with them and they will sort the issue out.
After waiting 2 weeks and nothing being done, I had trouble working with this employee again as I had to work with them every day and they were not passing me the information that I needed to do my job and it was causing me stress. I once again approached the Health and Safety person and they said once again to please leave it to them and they will finally sort the issue out.
The next day the manager came down to ask what was going on as he had just come back from a holiday and I told him about the issue and how it was affecting my work, He said he would sort it out for me and approached the lady about the problem. Later that day, he dismissed her from her employment and told me to go along with my daily.
Later that day, The employer received multiple calls from a former employer about why this dismissal was unfair for that employee and basically kept going on and on about it. At the end of the day, after nearly finishing my job, I was told to wait around for management to arrive.
He basically told me that this situation had gotten out of control and told me that I should have 4 weeks off, as it was effecting his business. After not saying anything to him as I was shocked over what he said, he told me that if I was to return to my position, it would not be available and that my employment would not be there either, and told me to sign off and leave.
I then went up to the payearoll lady after what he told me and got my separation certificate and she told me that I had to wait for the pay till the end of the week to receive it. I said I was ok with that and waited over 6 days for it. Once I received it, it had said that the reason for my leaving was because of shortage of work, which was untrue, and when I reported that it as an unfair dismissal, the employer tried to tell them that they never fired me, only suspended me for 4 weeks, when as stated before, they put a shortage of work on an Australian Government Document.
If anyone can help me under Employment Law, it would be much appreciated.
After waiting 2 weeks and nothing being done, I had trouble working with this employee again as I had to work with them every day and they were not passing me the information that I needed to do my job and it was causing me stress. I once again approached the Health and Safety person and they said once again to please leave it to them and they will finally sort the issue out.
The next day the manager came down to ask what was going on as he had just come back from a holiday and I told him about the issue and how it was affecting my work, He said he would sort it out for me and approached the lady about the problem. Later that day, he dismissed her from her employment and told me to go along with my daily.
Later that day, The employer received multiple calls from a former employer about why this dismissal was unfair for that employee and basically kept going on and on about it. At the end of the day, after nearly finishing my job, I was told to wait around for management to arrive.
He basically told me that this situation had gotten out of control and told me that I should have 4 weeks off, as it was effecting his business. After not saying anything to him as I was shocked over what he said, he told me that if I was to return to my position, it would not be available and that my employment would not be there either, and told me to sign off and leave.
I then went up to the payearoll lady after what he told me and got my separation certificate and she told me that I had to wait for the pay till the end of the week to receive it. I said I was ok with that and waited over 6 days for it. Once I received it, it had said that the reason for my leaving was because of shortage of work, which was untrue, and when I reported that it as an unfair dismissal, the employer tried to tell them that they never fired me, only suspended me for 4 weeks, when as stated before, they put a shortage of work on an Australian Government Document.
If anyone can help me under Employment Law, it would be much appreciated.
