Employee forging names

[Yoyooo]

What would you do if a employee wrote a email slating you, signed it off with every name in the department (15 people) but the other employees didn't even knew of the emails existence?

i'd leave it with HR to sort out, myself, and remain totally professional with him and every other employee who "signed" the document. Carry on regardless and let the people who're paid to sort it out, sort it out. Just protect yourself for now by staying clear.

Let HR deal with it.

But if everyone said they didn't sign it (though some knew about it) then said writer has commited forgery by email - that's a nice little cake topping.

(Csnt remember the legislation but it's down to forgery)

Those individuals do need to raise a complaint though or HR will be doing it for them.

It is HR that you would go to. Because clearly, you cannot do that.

Do you believe the people who said they didn't know the email was being sent? Were they cc'd in?

You could look at this another way. Do you listen to your team when they raise concerns? Is there anything you could be doing to manage the team better?

You say he's a trouble-maker but without so-called troublemakers we wouldn't have employment rights today. I am sure the ladies of Dagenham were considered troublemakers but we have the equal pay legislation because of their efforts.

Some call centres do treat their staff appallingly and it may just be that your team have bottled it when the email was sent and are now distancing themselves because they are scared.

Goodness some people are idiots aren't they.

I hope they throw the book at him. Yes people get annoyed and bitch about changes like this, it happens, it's kind of expected. But what he's done is make it a public battle that will likely not further his career with your company.

It's not really forgery is it though as it came from his email address and it's not like people could physically sign their name on an email anyway. He wanted to make it look like they'd all agreed the email and they hadn't. I suspect there was some bitching/moaning and possibly a bit of egging on but they're backtracking now. Personally I would be livid if someone put my name on something like that without me knowing and I'd be raising a grievance myself. I think this would generally be taken pretty seriously but I'm not sure if it's gross misconduct.

You say he's a trouble-maker but without so-called troublemakers we wouldn't have employment rights today. I am sure the ladies of Dagenham were considered troublemakers but we have the equal pay legislation because of their efforts.

Are you really comparing the fight for people to recieve equal pay for equal work to someone behaving like a secondary school age child in a professional working environment; equal pay fighting isn't the same as some entitled person complaining that they're being made to sit away from their mates like it's a GCSE Geography lesson and not their workplace, or that they're not allowed to sit with headphones in?