Hi- I have an HR question I hope someone may be able to help with, in relation to misconduct in the workplace.
I am very senior in a job role and recently reduced my hours for personal reasons and also to assist with a potential financial deficit. I have one direct report who looks after things on an operational basis. They have basically been really difficult since this new arrangement has been in place- effectively pretending I do not exist, not responding to emails/ phone calls, making significant decisions at odds to what I have said, been extremely rude to me on the phone, and basically refusing to make any attempt to work with me being based remotely- I was never involved operationally so this has had no impact on their work load. I feel really quite bullied and stressed out by the behaviour, made worse by them telling the person that I report to a pile of nonsense (luckily they know it is nonsense) about me not communicating with them.
I told the member of staff I had had enough of the behaviour and if it continued I planned to raise a grievance and they laughed and sneered at me and told me to go ahead. They are under the belief that as they are in charge operationally I can’t do anything.
So what can I do??