Hi guys, bit of a long one.
A woman in work has been off since February. I have worked with her since September, at which time we both applied for the same position, I was successful in this application and became her line manager. Safe to say, things became difficult after this. She repeatedly went out of her way to make errors, she was sent home for not wearing uniform (after 2 prior incidents of her not wearing uniform and being warned for it)
She went off sick in February, stating anxiety (not work related) and depression.
She has since brought multiple claims against the company, including a Grievance against myself.
There is no truth to anything in the grievance (this is not to cover my own back, the things said have genuinely never happened) and the grievance has been heard twice and found in my favour twice. She has appealed this again, and all of a sudden there is an addition claim of homophobia on there. Apparently I regularly discussed how I found homosexuality wrong, and referred to a member if staff as the lesbian.
This is categorically untrue. For reference, I worked with a gay man for 10 years who had HIV and was very supportive of him, my best friend is gay, he read at my wedding, the last 2 employees I have hired have been gay, one of which I offered to write a character reference for her to adopt a child, and finally the person I have supposedly refered to at the lesbian, is in fact, straight. The other woman has only met her once, and we have never discussed her. I know the woman’s sexuality because we were married the same month and showed each other pictures.
I am absolutely furious with this allegation, and considering taking further action myself. My question is, what would you do?
Yabu- forget about it
Yanbu- you should take it further